Sonnet 94

They that have power to hurt and will do none,That do not do the thing they most do show,Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow; 4They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,And husband nature's riches from expense;They are the lords and owners of their faces,Others but stewards of their excellence. 8The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,Though to itself it only live and die,But if that flower with base infection meet,The basest weed outbraves his dignity: 12For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

94. 1–14 Cf. n.2 show: seem to do6 husband . . . expense: do not squander nature's gifts in passion9–12 Cf. n.14 Cf. n.