| MINE eye and heart are at a mortal war | |
| How to divide the conquest of thy sight; | |
| Mine eye my heart thy picture’s sight would bar, | |
| My heart mine eye the freedom of that right. | |
| My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,— | 5 |
| A closet never pierc’d with crystal eyes,— | |
| But the defendant doth that plea deny, | |
| And says in him thy fair appearance lies. | |
| To ’cide this title is impannelled | |
| A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart; | 10 |
| And by their verdict is determined | |
| The clear eye’s moiety and the dear heart’s part: | |
| As thus; mine eye’s due is thy outward part, | |
| And my heart’s right thine inward love of heart. |