1. uneared: untilled
2. car: Phoebus' chariot
3. outgoing...noon: i.e. passing your prime
4. thou growest...departest: you become in one of your children what you cease
to be in yourself
5. O...yourself: O that your eternal self and present self were one
6. engraft: graft, infuse new life into (with poetry)
7. stretched meter: poetic hyperbole
8. thou ow'st: you own
9. thou grow'st: you are grafted
10. in her blood: alive
11. with . . . hand: i.e. naturally, without cosmetics
12. master-mistress: master and mistress
13. A man . . . controlling: i.e. a man in complexion with all complexions - 'humors' -
under his control (the line may be corrupt or, as glossed thus, may contrast male constancy
with feminine inconstancy)
14. one thing: i.e. a penis
15. every . . . rehearse: i.e. mentions everything beautiful in relation to his mistress
16. that . . . well: i.e. that are fond of large and specious comparisons
17. that: who, i.e. since I am not a huckster
18. of one date: of an age ; i.e. so long as you are young
19. For . . . art: i.e. the friend's beautiful body encloses the poet's
heart, and this transfer of hearts makes friend and poet of one age
20. Presume not on: do not expect to regain