| AS a decrepit father takes delight | |
| To see his active child do deeds of youth, | |
| So I, made lame by Fortune’s dearest spite, | |
| Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth; | |
| For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, | 5 |
| Or any of these all, or all, or more, | |
| Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit, | |
| I make my love engrafted to this store: | |
| So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis’d, | |
| Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give | 10 |
| That I in thy abundance am suffic’d, | |
| And by a part of all thy glory live. | |
| Look what is best, that best I wish in thee: | |
| This wish I have; then ten times happy me! |