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| What is your substance, whereof are you made, | 1 |
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| That millions of strange shadows on you tend? |
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| Since every one, hath every one, one shade, |
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| And you but one, can every shadow lend. |
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| Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit | 5 |
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| Is poorly imitated after you; |
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| On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set, |
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| And you in Grecian tires are painted new: |
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| Speak of the spring, and foison of the year, |
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| The one doth shadow of your beauty show, | 10 |
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| The other as your bounty doth appear; |
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| And you in every blessed shape we know. |
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 In all external grace you have some part, |
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| But you like none, none you, for constant heart. |
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