The copy-text is Shake-speares Sonnets Never Before Imprinted (London, 1609). I’ve regularized the use of i and j, u and v, but have otherwise preserved the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation of the original. The notes are my own.
| Not marble, nor the guilded° monument, | gilded, covered in gold | |
| Of Princes shall out-live this powrefull rime,° | poem | |
| But you shall shine more bright in these contents | ||
| Then unswept stone, besmeer’d° with sluttish° time | smeared — dirty | |
| 5 | When wastefull warre shall Statues over-turne, | |
| And broiles° roote out the worke of masonry, | battles | |
| Nor Mars his sword, nor warres quick fire shall burne: | ||
| The living record of your memory. | ||
| Gainst death, and all oblivious emnity | ||
| 10 | Shall you pace forth, your praise shall stil finde roome, | |
| Even in the eyes of all posterity | ||
| That weare this world out to the ending doome. | ||
| So til the judgement that your selfe arise, | ||
| You live in this, and dwell in lovers eies. |