Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.
William Shakespeare X. AbsenceB
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend
Nor services to do, till you require:
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu:
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those;—
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.