| MUSIC to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? | |
| Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: | |
| Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly, | |
| Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy? | |
| If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, | 5 |
| By unions married, do offend thine ear, | |
| They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds | |
| In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. | |
| Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, | |
| Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; | 10 |
| Resembling sire and child and happy mother, | |
| Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: | |
| Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, | |
| Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none.’ |