Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 29

THe Frosty Beard, inclining al to white,
The Snowy Head: or Head more white then Snow,
The Crow-foot neer the Eyes, Browes, Furrow'd quite,
With Trenches in the Cheeks, Experience show.
These are the Emblems of Authority;
Which ioynd to those do much augment her might:
These are the Signes of Reasons Soueraignty,
And Hyrogliphicks spelling Iudgement right.
These are the Trophies rear'd by Times left hand.
Vpon the spoile of Passion, and her Powres:
We, by these Symbols, Wisedome vnderstand:
That vs directeth, and protecteth ours:
All these in me begin to come in sight,
Yet can I hardly rule my selfe aright.