Sonnet 13
IN that proud port[1] which her so goodly graceth,
Whiles her faire face she reares vp to the skie:
And to the ground her eie-lids low embaseth[2],
Most goodly temperature[3] ye may descry,
Myld humblesse mixt with awfull[4] maiesty,
For looking on the earth, whence she was borne[5]:
Her minde remembreth her mortalitie:
What so is fayrest shall to earth returne.
But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne
Base thing, and thinke how she to heauen may clime:
Treading downe earth as lothsome and forlorne[6],
That hinders heauenly thoughts with drossy[7] slime.
Yet lowly still vouchsafe to looke on me,
Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be.
[1] port:态度，举止，风采，姿态。
[2] embaseth:降低，减弱。
[3] temperature:最简单的意思是指人身上几种素质的混合体，即理性的心和行为举止。
[4] awfull:可怕的；有威严的，使人敬畏的。
[5] borne:她是亚当的后代，用泥做成。
[6] forlorne:暗指被抛弃和失去之义。
[7] drossy:不纯洁的，掺假的。
