Malisque minus est quiquid in nobis fuit,

Olim petitum cecidit, et partu labat,

Maturque multum rapuit ex illa mihi,

Aetas citato senior eripuit gradu.

And as a tree that in the green wood grows,

With fruit and leaves, and in the summer blows,

In winter like a stock deformed shows:

Our beauty takes his race and journey goes,

And doth decrease, and lose, and come to nought,

Admir'd of old, to this by child-birth brought: