WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET NUMBER THREE 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 …
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…wanting children. He remained kind and gentle throughout the first twelve lines, but with the last two, he gave his audience an ultimatum, if she will not do it for herself, then at least do it for him, or he will have nothing to do with her. This is probably used to give her a taste of what it would be like to live and die alone, and to suffer the worst stings of mortality.