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Sonnet #13
O! that you were your self; but, love, you are
No longer yours, than you your self here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give:
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination; then you were
Yourself again, after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold,
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
O! none but unthrifts. Dear my love, you know,
You had a father: let your son say so.
1、O that you were yourself:I with that you were yourself,i.e. you would not forsake yourself；参见上首第11行。love:my love friend.此处诗人首次以 you 称呼对方，比thou 为亲切，又称其为love，显示了感情的发展。
1-2、you are/No longer yours than you yourself herelive:you own yourself only as long as you remain alive.here:in this world.
3、Against:In anticipation of .end:end pf life.
4、sweet semblance:lovely from.some other:another person,i.e. a child of yours.
5、So:By doing so.should:could.hold in lease:租赁，短期占用。
6、deternination:ternination,满期；法律用语。were:sould be.
6-7、you were/Yourself again:有两解：(1)you would live again；(2)you would own yourself again.
8、=When your children would have your appearance.issue:offspring,children.
9、Who lets:Who is it that pernits；此问句直到12行才完，13行前半是其答复。house:参见10.7注。
10、husbandry:双关：(1)management；(2)provision of a husband；参见3.6注。
12、barren rage:barren-making ravage.
13、unthrifts:prodigals，浪子。
14、had:过去时，说明对方的父亲已死，此点同骚散普顿伯爵的情况相合（参见前言）。so :that he bad a father.
日期: 2007年4月14 周六