1. infection: the world's ills enumerated in the preceding sonnet.

2. grace: enhance.

4. lace: adorn.

5. false painting: cosmetics.

6. steal dead seeing of: steal a lifeless appearance from.

7. poor: inferior; defective.  indirectly: imitatively.

8. roses of shadow: i.e., cheeks painted the color of roses.  true: genuine.

9. bankrout: bankrupt.

11. she: Nature.   exchequer: representative to keep her treasures.

12. proud of many, lives upon his gains: i.e., though proud many other beauties, lives only on the increase of his beauty over all other beauties. .

13. stores: preserves; keeps in reserve.

14. last: latest times; i.e., the present.