Сонеты Шекспира 1-20. Письма из будущего (1). Историческая головоломка. Александр Скальв

      Сонет 2. Оригинальный текст

      When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,

      And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,

      Thy youth’s proud livery so gazed on now

      Will be a tottered weed of small worth held:

      Then being asked where all thy beauty lies,

      Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,

      To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes

      Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.

      How much more praise deserved thy beauty’s use,

      If thou couldst answer, «This fair child» of mine

      Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse’,

      Proving his beauty by succession thine.

      This were to be new made when thou art old,

      And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it соld

      Сонет 3. Оригинальный текст

      Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,

      Now is the time that face should form another,

      Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,

      Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

      For where is she so fair whose uneared womb

      Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?

      Or who is he so fond will be the tomb

      Of his self-love to stop posterity?

      Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee

      Calls back the lovely April of her prime;

      So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,

      Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.

      But if thou live rememb’red not to be,

      Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

      Сонет 4. Оригинальный текст

      Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend

      Upon thyself thy beauty’s legacy?

      Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,

      And being frank she lends to those are free:

      Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse

      The bounteous largess given thee to give?

      Profitless usurer, why dost thou use

      So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?

      For having traffic with thyself alone,

      Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive:

      Then how, when Nature calls thee to be gone,

      What acceptable audit canst thou leave?

      Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,

      Which used lives th’executor to be.

      Сонет 5. Оригинальный текст

      Those hours that with gentle work did frame

      The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell

      Will play the tyrants to the very same,

      And that unfair which fairly doth excel;

      For never-resting time leads summer on

      To hideous winter and confounds him there,

      Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

      Beauty o’ersnowed and bareness every where:

      Then were not summer’s distillation left

      A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

      Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,

      Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.

      But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,

      Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet