Full of such disasters. When rocks impregnable are not so stout, 7. A word often applied to fortresses and other strong military defence points. Priam's six-gated city, Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, Sperr up the sons of Troy. They protect the inhabitants for the interim but are no defence against the ravages of time.
Time causes to decay.
Decay is not normally a transitive verb, and here it is left uncertain as to how Time achieves its end of universal decay. The fearful meditiation is that which has already been stated, and the fears which are about to be stated. SB defends the Q reading of who his spoil or beauty can forbid . That in black ink my love may still shine bright. The blackness of the ink opposed to the shining brightness of the youth described in the sonnets is part of the miracle of his preservation.