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CXIV



Or whether doth my mind, being crown\'d with you,

Drink up the monarch\'s plague, this flattery?

Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,

And that your love taught it this alchemy,

To make of monsters and things indigest

Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,

Creating every bad a perfect best,

As fast as objects to his beams assemble?

O! \'tis the first, \'tis flattery in my seeing,

And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:

Mine eye well knows what with his gust is \'greeing, 

And to his palate doth prepare the cup:

  If it be poison\'d, \'tis the lesser sin

  That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.

 	--William Shakespeare