By having a child the intended would be able to see her blood beautiful and warm still even though she is old, as the couplet tells us.
In Sonnet 22, the speaker is talking to art or his muse. In this sonnet he begins by saying that as long as his muse is young then he should not be old himself “My glass shall not persuade me I am old / So long as youth and
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