Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 6 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 6 |
1 Then let not winter's ragged hand deface 2 In thee thy summer ere thou be distill'd: 3 Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place 4 With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd. 5 That use is not forbidden usury, 6 Which happies those that pay the willing loan; 7 That's for thyself to breed another thee, 8 Or ten times happier be it ten for one; 9 Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, 10 If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee: 11 Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart, 12 Leaving thee living in posterity? 13 Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
14 To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
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