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8. surmount: surpass.
9. glass: mirror. indeed: i.e., as I really am.
10. beated and chopp'd: beaten and battered. tann'd antiquity: dried (like tanned leather) and darkened with age.
12. iniquity: wickedness; sin.
13. 'Tis thee, myself: Here the poet addresses his beloved as his other self.