Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need

1I never saw that you did painting need,

2And therefore to your fair no painting set;

3I found, or thought I found, you did exceed

4That barren tender of a poet's debt:

5And therefore have I slept in your report,

6That you yourself, being extant, well might show

7How far a modern quill doth come too short,

8Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.

9This silence for my sin you did impute,

10Which shall be most my glory being dumb;

11For I impair not beauty being mute,

12When others would give life, and bring a tomb.

13 There lives more life in one of your fair eyes

14 Than both your poets can in praise devise.