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1. glass: mirror.
3. fresh repair: youthful condition.
4. beguile: cheat. unbless some mother: deprive some woman of the blessing of motherhood.
5. unear'd: untilled, uncultivated.
6. husbandry: cultivation. There's also an pun on "husband."
7. so fond will: so foolish that he will.
8. Of: because of. stop posterity: i.e., to prevent yourself from being remembered.
9. glass: mirror.
10. prime: springtime, youth.
11. windows of thine age : i.e., children, through whom he will be able to see himself as he is now, in youth.
13. live rememb'red not to be: i.e., live in such a way that you will be remembered only as one who barely existed.