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| Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? | 1 |
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| Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: |
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| Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, |
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| Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? |
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| If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, | 5 |
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| By unions married, do offend thine ear, |
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| They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds |
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| In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. |
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| Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, |
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| Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; | 10 |
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| Resembling sire and child and happy mother, |
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| Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: |
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 Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, |
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| Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.' |
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