The speaker then goes on belittling the sun, asking it why it thinks its beams are so powerful and deserving of respect. He says that he "could eclipse and cloud them with a winke" (13), but he doesn't because he'd rather keep on gazing upon his lover. The speaker goes on to say that the sun's light is nothing compared to the beauty of his lover and the love between them, asking the sun to look at her and tell him if he doesn't have something worth more than all the spices and jewels in India lying next to him in his bed. Then, in the final stanza, the speaker launches into a conceit in which he compares himself to all the princes in the world and his lover to all of the states in the world. The speaker looks on his lover as a prince looks on his domain, as if he has the power to rule over her. As if comparing himself to all princes wasn't enough, the speaker then makes it even more clear that he sees himself as the most important thing in the world by declaring that "Nothing else is" (22). This is not meant to discount his lover. On the contrary, she must be some great beauty based on the way the speaker compares her to all the jewels and spices in India. However, the only reason that she is important in the speaker's little world is because she is his. If it weren't for his affection, she would be as irrelevant as everybody else is to the speaker. The speaker proceeds to extend his conceit to say that everyone and everything in the world is merely an imitation of his relationship with his lover. He says, "Princes doe but play us; compar'd to this/All honor's mimic; All wealth alchemie" (23-24). This statement helps illustrate the speaker's delusion that the entire world is just an extension of his world. He believes that everyone who is considered honorable is mimicking him and that everything in the world that is considered wealth may as well be alchemy, which is to say that other people's concept of wealth is nonsense that holds no real value when compared to his love.
