Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Shakespeare. 15641616151. Sonnets vii
BEING your slave, what should I do but tend | |
Upon the hours and times of your desire? | |
I have no precious time at all to spend, | |
Nor services to do, till you require. | |
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour | 5 |
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, | |
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour | |
When you have bid your servant once adieu; | |
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought | |
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, | 10 |
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought | |
Save, where you are how happy you make those! | |
So true a fool is love, that in your Will, | |
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. |