Sonnet 8

1 Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
2 Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
3 Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
4 Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
5 If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
6 By unions married do offend thine ear,
7 They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
8 In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear:
9 Mark how one string sweet husband to another,
10 Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
11 Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,
12 Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
13 Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
14 Sings this to thee, ‘Thou single wilt prove none’.