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| SONNET 8 |
| Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? |
| Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. |
| Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly, |
| Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy? |
| If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, |
| By unions married, do offend thine ear, |
| They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds |
| In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. |
| Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, |
| Strikes each in each by mutual ordering, |
| Resembling sire and child and happy mother |
| Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing: |
| Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, |
| Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.' |
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