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- # Sonnet 16
## Overview
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## Context
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## Contents
Section 16 contains the text of Sonnet 16. The sonnet begins with the lines: "B Vt wherefore do not you a mightier wale / Make warre vppon this bloudie tirant time?" It continues to explore themes of time, decay, and the preservation of beauty through verse, urging the subject to immortalize themselves through poetry rather than relying on physical reproduction. The sonnet concludes with the lines: "To giue away your selfe, keeps your selfe still, / And you must liue drawne by your owne sweet skill."
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- ## 16
**B**Vt wherefore do not you a mightier wale
Make warre vppon this bloudie tirant time?
And fortifie your selfe in your decay
With meanes more blesfed then my barren rime?
Now stand you on the top of happie houres,
And many maiden gardens yet vnset,
With vertuous wish would beare your liuing flowers,
Much liker then your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repaire
Which this (Times pensel or my pupill pen)
Neither in inward worth nor outward faire
Can make you liue your selfe in eies of men,
To giue away your selfe, keeps your selfe still,
And you must liue drawne by your owne sweet skill.
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