Sonnet 13

IN that proud port1 which her so goodly graceth,

Whiles her faire face she reares vp to the skie:

And to the ground her eie-lids low embaseth2,

Most goodly temperature3 ye may descry,

Myld humblesse mixt with awfull4 maiesty,

For looking on the earth, whence she was borne5:

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 forlorne6,

That hinders heauenly thoughts with drossy7 slime.

Yet lowly still vouchsafe to looke on me,

Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be.

注释：1.port：态度，举止，风采，姿态。

2.embaseth：降低，减弱。

3.temperature：最简单的意思是指人身上几种素质的混合体，即理性的心和行为举止。

4.awfull：可怕的；有威严的，使人敬畏的。

5.borne：她是亚当的后代，用泥做成。

6.forlorne：暗指被抛弃和失去之义。

7.drossy：不纯洁的，掺假的。