Sonnet 13

IN that proud port^[1] which her so goodly graceth,

Whiles her faire face she reares vp to the skie:

And to the ground her eie-lids low embaseth^[2],

Most goodly temperature^[3] ye may descry,

Myld humblesse mixt with awfull^[4] maiesty,

For looking on the earth, whence she was borne^[5]:

Her minde remembreth her mortalitie:

What so is fayrest shall to earth returne.

But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne

Base thing, and thinke how she to heauen may clime:

Treading downe earth as lothsome and forlorne^[6],

That hinders heauenly thoughts with drossy^[7] slime.

Yet lowly still vouchsafe to looke on me,

Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be.

[1] port:態(tài)度，舉止，風(fēng)采，姿態(tài)。

[2] embaseth:降低，減弱。

[3] temperature:最簡(jiǎn)單的意思是指人身上幾種素質(zhì)的混合體，即理性的心和行為舉止。

[4] awfull:可怕的；有威嚴(yán)的，使人敬畏的。

[5] borne:她是亞當(dāng)?shù)暮蟠?，用泥做成?/p>

[6] forlorne:暗指被拋棄和失去之義。

[7] drossy:不純潔的，摻假的。