Sonnet 16

ONE day as I unwarily did gaze

On those fayre eyes my loves immortall light:

The whiles my stonisht1 hart stood in amaze2,

Through sweet illusion3 of her lookes delight.

I mote4 perceive how, in her glauncing sight,

Legions of loves5 with little wings did fly:

Darting their deadly arrowes, fyry bright,

At every rash beholder passing by.

One of those archers closely6 I did spy,

Ayming his arrow at my very hart:

When suddenly, with twincle7 of her eie,

The damzell broke his misintended dart.

Had she not so doon, sure I had bene slayne,

Yet as it was, I hardly scap’t with paine8.

注释：1.stonisht：使吃惊的，使惊讶的。

2.amaze：使为难，使迷惑；使伤脑筋；使混乱。

3.illusion：具有欺骗性的外表。

4.mote：能，可以。

5.loves：她的眼光中饱含“爱情小唱”。

6.closely：隐蔽地，偷偷摸摸地。

7.twincle：眯着眼看，贬眼。

8.paine：几乎没有逃脱。