Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change

1No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:

2Thy pyramids built up with newer might

3To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;

4They are but dressings of a former sight.

5Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire

6What thou dost foist upon us that is old;

7And rather make them born to our desire

8Than think that we before have heard them told.

9Thy registers and thee I both defy,

10Not wondering at the present nor the past,

11For thy records and what we see doth lie,

12Made more or less by thy continual haste.

13 This I do vow and this shall ever be;

14 I will be true despite thy scythe and thee.