- Against that time, if ever that time come,
- When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
- When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
- Call’d to that audit by advis’d respects;
- Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,
- And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
- When love, converted from the thing it was,
- Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
- Against that time do I ensconce me here,
- Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
- And this my hand, against my self uprear,
- To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
- To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
- Since why to love I can allege no cause.