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Herbert SONNET NO. 6        Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,      In thee thy summer ere thou  be distill'd:      Make sweet some vial, treasure thou  some place,      With beautys treasure  ere it be self killed:      That use is not forbidden usury,      Which happies those that pay the willing loan,      Thats for thy self to breed another thee  ,      Or ten times  happier be it ten for one,      Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,      If ten of thine, ten times refigured thee,      Then what could death do if thou  should'st depart,      Leaving thee living in posterity;      Be not self-wild, for thou  art much too fair,      To be deaths conquest and make worms thine heir.

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    Note the repetition of the following words, we find-treasure,
  treasure, ten times, ten times, ten times, ten, ten, thou, thou,
  thou, thou, thou, thyself, thyself, (see 4).
  
  8th, 9th and 10th Lines.  Compare "Alls well that ends well",
                            Act 1, Scene 1:" Virginity by being
                            once lost may be ten times  found:
                            By being ever kept-it is ever lost".
  
    Here Bacon tells Herbert not to let winter (old age) deface
  his summer (middle age) until he has distilled and made some
  sweet vial (child) and to treasure (store) some place with beauty's
  treasure (wealth) before it is self killed (killed by himself) that
  to do so (father a child) is not forbidden usury (practice) and
  it makes those happy that do so-that he himself (Herbert)
  should breed (produce) another child, that he would be ten
  times happier if he had ten children, that death could do nothing
  if he dies leaving behind him posterity (descendants), that he
  was too good a man to die leaving only worms as his heirs.
  
  

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