Sonnet 3

1.Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
2. Now is the time that face should form another;
3. Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
4. Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
5. For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
6. Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
7. Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
8. Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
9. Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
10. Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
11. So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
12. Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
13. But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
14. Die single and thine image dies with thee.

3

請君照鏡對着臉兒說分明，

快將這臉龐傳他人，

若如此麗容不傳新，

會欺世誤人，少人一母親。

哪有淑女子宮尚未耕，

鄙視汝作夫君勤耕耘？

哪有男人自戀如此很，

戀入墳墓，血脈全斷盡？

汝既為汝母之明鏡，

從中找回四月俏青春；

當知等汝滿面生皺紋，

也能憑窗看汝當初青春歲如金。

不過如汝活着沒人記情分，

那麼汝和汝形死都打單身。

註：

1.  第一行中的glass, 根據Booth, 在十四行詩中一般都是指mirror.

2.  第四行中的unbless some mother是剝奪某人做母親的福氣的意思。

3.   根據Booth, 第五行， For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb 中的unear'd 是unploughed的比喻用法。