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| As a decrepit father takes delight | 1 |
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| To see his active child do deeds of youth, |
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| So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite, |
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| Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth; |
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| For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, | 5 |
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| Or any of these all, or all, or more, |
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| Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit, |
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| I make my love engrafted, to this store: |
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| So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd, |
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| Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give | 10 |
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| That I in thy abundance am suffic'd, |
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| And by a part of all thy glory live. |
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 Look what is best, that best I wish in thee: |
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| This wish I have; then ten times happy me! |
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