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0Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
That thou consumest thyself 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 murderous shame commits.
屠岸译：
是为了怕教寡妇的眼睛哭湿，
你才在独身生活中消耗你自己？
啊！假如你不留下子孙就去世，
世界将为你哭泣，像丧偶的妻：
世界将做你的未亡人，哭不完，
说你没有把自己的形影留下来，
而一切个人的寡妇却只要看见
孩子的眼睛就记住亡夫的神态。
浪子在世间挥霍的任何财产
只换了位置，仍能为世人享用；
而美的消费在世间可总有个完，
守着不用，就毁在本人的手中。
对自己会作这么可耻的谋害，
这种心胸不可能对别人有爱。
