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glass: mirror.
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fresh repair: youthful condition.
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beguile: cheat. unbless some mother: deprive some woman of the blessing of motherhood.
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unear'd: untilled, uncultivated.
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husbandry: cultivation. There's also an pun on "husband."
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so fond will: so foolish that he will.
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Of: because of. stop posterity: i.e., to prevent yourself from being remembered.
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glass: mirror.
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prime: springtime, youth.
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windows of thine age : i.e., children, through whom he will be able to see himself as he is now, in youth.
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live rememb'red not to be: i.e., live in such a way that you will be remembered only as one who barely existed.