(Sonnet 97.)

Here, as in the dramas,[[2]] contrasts in Nature are often used to point contrasts in life:

How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame

Which like a canker in the fragrant rose

Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!

O in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!

(Sonnet 95.)

and

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done;

Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud;