| AGAINST that time, if ever that time come | |
| When I shall see thee frown on my defects, | |
| When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum, | |
| Call’d to that audit by advis’d respects; | |
| Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass, | 5 |
| And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye, | |
| When love, converted from the thing it was, | |
| Shall reasons find of settled gravity; | |
| Against that time do I ensconce me here | |
| Within the knowledge of mine own desert, | 10 |
| And this my hand against myself uprear, | |
| To guard the lawful reasons on thy part: | |
| To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws, | |
| Since why to love I can allege no cause. |