| Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875. |
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| W. Shakespeare |
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| X. Absence |
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| BEING your slave, what should I do but tend | |
| Upon the hours and times of your desire? | |
| I have no precious time at all to spend | |
| Nor services to do, till you require: | |
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| Nor dare I chide the world-without-end-hour | 5 |
| Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, | |
| Nor think the bitterness of absence sour | |
| When you have bid your servant once adieu: | |
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| Nor dare I question with my jealous thought | |
| Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, | 10 |
| But like a sad slave, stay and think of nought | |
| Save, where you are, how happy you make those;— | |
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| So true a fool is Love, that in your will | |
| Though you do anything, he thinks no ill. | |
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