Classic Poem

Some will commend and prayse their mistres crisped hayre
others the comely shape the sweete and modest grace
and some will moste allowe the beawtye freshe and faire
others agayne the pleasinge favoure off the face
But theis and all such lyke, as flowers shall fade awaye
when this our age shall stoope and quayle with tract of tyme
yett shall not then my mistresse glorye so decaye
but florishe all as much as in her youthfull pryme
Not that I meane therby her feature so shall shyne
as now it doth to stayne and blemish all the reste
but that her worthye mynde which is indeed devyn[e
shall boldelye then compare, her vertues with the beste
And when her date expires (a dolefull Date to nam[e)
the heavens, the worlde and earth a partage rich shall ha[ve
The heavens her spotles mynde, the worlde her worthy fa[me
the earth her stately lymmes, for them to base a grave.