If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head
The mistress does not have beautiful golden locks of hair, they are black and dull.
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head
The mistress does not have beautiful golden locks of hair, they are black and dull.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
Although she does not possess the qualities of a stereotypical beautiful woman that are usually discussed in love poems, Shakespeare still loves his mistress.
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground
Shakespeare's mistress walks on the ground like a normal human, she is not a goddess or a divine figure
And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks
The mistress has bad breath.
belied
Fail to fulfill or justify
dun
a dull grayish-brown color
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Shakespeare is comparing his mistress to to the stereotypical ideas of beauty