Sonnet 50

LONG languishing in double malady,

Of my harts wound and of my bodies greife:

There came to me a leach1, that would apply

Fit medicines for my bodies best reliefe.

“Vayne man!”(quod I) “that hast but little priefe2:

In deep discovery of the mynds disease,

Is not the hart of all the body chiefe,

And rules the members as it selfe doth please3?

Then with some cordialls4 seeke first to appease,

The inward languour of my wounded hart,

And then my body shall have shortly ease:

But such sweet cordialls passe Physitions art.”

Then, my lyfes leach5, doe you your skill reveale,

And with one salve both hart and body heale.

注释：1.leach：医生。

2.priefe：经验。

3.please：有位圣人说过，头脑反过来操控身体。

4.cordialls：对心脏有效的药剂。

5.leach：恋人心仪的人。