Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

1Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

2Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:

3Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,

4Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?

5If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,

6By unions married, do offend thine ear,

7They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds

8In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.

9Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,

10Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;

11Resembling sire and child and happy mother,

12Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:

13 Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,

14 Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'