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4. lease: allotted time. date: duration.
7. fair . . . fair: beautiful thing . . . beauty. sometime: in the course of time.
8. untrimm'd: stripped of beautiful ornament.
10. fair: beauty. thou ow'st: you own.
12. lines: i.e., lines of poetry. to time thou growest: to time you become engrafted (so that you are immortal).