For thine own bowels, which do call thee [sire],

30 The mere effusion of thy proper loins,

Do curse the gout, [serpigo], and the rheum,

For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age.

But, as it were, an after-dinner’s sleep,

Dreaming on both; for [all thy blessed] youth

35 Becomes [as aged], and doth beg the alms

Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,

Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor [beauty],

To make thy riches pleasant. What’s [yet] in this