Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more

1Who is it that says most, which can say more,

2Than this rich praise, — that you alone, are you?

3In whose confine immured is the store

4Which should example where your equal grew.

5Lean penury within that pen doth dwell

6That to his subject lends not some small glory;

7But he that writes of you, if he can tell

8That you are you, so dignifies his story,

9Let him but copy what in you is writ,

10Not making worse what nature made so clear,

11And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,

12Making his style admired every where.

13 You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,

14 Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.