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Sonnet XLIX
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| Against that time, if ever that time come, | 1
| When I shall see thee frown on my defects, | 2
| When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum, | 3
| Call'd to that audit by advised respects; | 4
| Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass | 5
| And scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye, | 6
| When love, converted from the thing it was, | 7
| Shall reasons find of settled gravity,-- | 8
| Against that time do I ensconce me here | 9
| Within the knowledge of mine own desert, | 10
| And this my hand against myself uprear, | 11
| To guard the lawful reasons on thy part: | 12
| To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws, | 13
| Since why to love I can allege no cause. | 14
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