Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

by Nathan Drake

Among the allusions of this nature in his "Sonnets," the selection of a few will answer our purpose. The first occurs in the twenty-second sonnet:—

"My glass shall not persuade me I am old,

So long as youth and thou are of one date."

The two next are still more explicit:—

"But when my glass shows me myself indeed,

'Bated and chopp'd with tan'd antiquity:"

Son. 62.

"Against my love shall be, as I am now,

With time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn:"

Son. 63.