Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
if the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
by unions married do offend thine ear,
they do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
in singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear:
mark how one string sweet husband to another,
strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,
who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
sings this to thee, 'thou single wilt prove none'.