挥霍的浪子，为何你将
美的遗产用在己身？
上天是借而非予，
其慷慨只对慷慨之人。 4
那么，你这美丽的吝啬鬼，为何
滥用别人托你转交的厚赠？
又似放贷而无获者，为何
用尽了重币，而终不得长存？ 8
只因你在与自己交易，
宛若在迷梦中自欺。
而一旦上天召回你的生命，
这交易怎经得起审听？ 12
未曾展现的美将随葬荒茔，
你留下的美才被子孙继承。
Sonnet 4
Unthrifty loveliness,why dost thou spend
Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing,but doth lend,
And being frank,she lends to those are free. 4
Then,beauteous niggard,why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer,why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums yet canst not live? 8
For having traffic with thyself alone,
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive,
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone:
What acceptable audit canst thou leave? 12
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which used,lives th'executor to be.
