William Shakespeare, Sonnet

- 57- * Being your slave, what should I do but tend *

Being your slave, what should I do but tend

Upon the hours and times of your desire?

I have no precious time at all to spend,

Nor services to do, till you require.

Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour

Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,

Nor think the bitterness of absence sour

When you have bid your servant once adieu;

Nor dare I question with my jealous thought

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.

So true a fool is love that in your will,

Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.

身為你的奴隸,

除了隨時隨地聽候你的差遣，我還能做什麼?

我根本沒有寶貴時間可供消磨,

除了聽你使喚，也沒有事可做;

我不敢責怪於那永無止盡等候的時刻,

我的主人,我乖乖為你守著時鐘等候,

即便你對你的奴僕說了一聲再見,

我也不敢想那分離時刻的苦悶和痛苦;

儘管我滿心疑慮,

卻不敢追問你在什麼地方、你在做什麼事情?

我像個可憐的奴隸一樣安守本分,一點也不敢多想，

只是揣想和你相遇的人有多麼高興呢

像這樣痴愛著一個人的傻瓜真是愚蠢,

不論你做了什麼,他都會覺得你的心地不惡、你做的一切都是美好的...