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