He does it with mirrors

Hard homework day.  Taking a test tomorrow a.m.  Let’s make this short+sweet.

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III

  Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

  Now is the time that face should form another;

  Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,

  Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

  For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb

  Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?

  Or who is he so fond will be the tomb,

  Of his self-love to stop posterity?

  Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee

  Calls back the lovely April of her prime;

  So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,

  Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.

    But if thou live, remember'd not to be,

    Die single and thine image dies with thee.

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Lesson in the first quatrain:  Hide the indicative inside an imperative.

Second quatrain:  Interrogatives always work.

Volta:  The but if at the beginning of line 13.

More tomorrow p.m. (after test).