The breath of time shall blast the flowry Spring,

Which so perfumes thy cheeke, and with it bring

So darke a mist, as shall eclipse the light

Of thy faire eyes, in an eternall night.

Some melancholly chamber of the earth,

[24](For that like Time devoures whom it gave breath)

Thy beauties shall entombe, while all who ere

Lov'd nobly, offer up their sorrowes there.

But I whose griefe no formall limits bound,

Beholding the darke caverne of that ground,