Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Sonnet 9Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
That thou consum'st thy self in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind: Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it; But beauty's waste hath in the world an end, And kept unused the user so destroys it. No love toward others in that bosom sits That on himself such murd'rous shame commits. |
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Is it because you’re afraid of leaving a sorrowful widow behind that you stay single? Were you to die, the whole world would mourn your passing as much as any widow would. Everyone would be devastated that you had gone without leaving any trace of yourself behind, and so be more bereft than a normal widow, who can after all always remember her husband in the faces of her children.
A spendthrift may seem to squander his money by letting it slip through his fingers is actually spreading wealth: the trickle-down theory. If good looks are kept to themselves and not shared out, they are lost to the whole world once the original owner dies.
Anyone who can commit such shameful waste must be selfish indeed.