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  • Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
    And many maiden gardens yet unset,
    With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
    Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
    So should the lines of life that life repair
    Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
    Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
    Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

    William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238