- Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
- Full character’d with lasting memory,
- Which shall above that idle rank remain,
- Beyond all date; even to eternity:
- Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
- Have faculty by nature to subsist;
- Till each to raz’d oblivion yield his part
- Of thee, thy record never can be miss’d.
- That poor retention could not so much hold,
- Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
- Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
- To trust those tables that receive thee more:
- To keep an adjunct to remember thee
- Were to import forgetfulness in me.