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Stay, stay, sweet Time; behold, or ere thou passe

From world to world, thou long hast sought to see,

That wonder now wherein all wonders be,

Where heauen beholds her in a mortall glasse.

Nay, looke thee, Time, in this Celesteall glasse,

And thy youth past in this faire mirror see:

Behold worlds Beautie in her infancie,

What shee was then, and thou, or ere shee was.

Now passe on, Time: to after-worlds tell this,

Tell truelie, Time, what in thy time hath beene,

That they may tel more worlds what Time hath seene,

And heauen may ioy to think on past worlds blisse.

Heere make a Period, Time, and saie for mee,

She was the like that neuer was, nor neuer more shalbe.