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Marquerite SONNET NO.22 My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date, For when in thee  times furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate, For all that beauty that doth cover thee , Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, Which in thy breast doth live as thine in me, How can I then be elder than thou art? 0, therefore love, be of yourself so wary, As I not for myself but for thee will, Bearing thy heart , which I will keep so chary As tender nurse her babe from fairing ill, Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain, Thou gavest me thine not to give back again.

 

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    Note the repetition of the following words, we find-thee,
  thee, thee, my heart, thy heart, thy heart.
    Here Bacon tells Marguerite that as long as youth and herself
  are of the same age his looking-glass will not persuade him that
  he is getting old but that death would carry him off before she
  became old (time's furrows in her brow).   That her beauty
  is a garment that covers his heart which lives in her breast as her
  heart lives in his, so that he cannot be older than she is.  He
  tells her to take care of herself (be wary-cautious) as he will
  not for himself but for her as he bears her heart which he will
  also keep carefully (so chary) like a nurse keeping her child
  from ill.  He tells her to presume not (not rely on or take for
  granted) her heart when his heart is dead because she gave him
  her heart to keep and not to give it back again.
  
   
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