Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editors: Hardy M. Cook, Ian Lancashire

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The Sonnets (Modern)
- Work
- Poem
  1. Dedication
  2. 1 — 3
  3. 4 — 6
  4. 7 — 9
  5. 10 — 12
  6. 13 — 15
  7. 16 — 18
  8. 19 — 21
  9. 22 — 24
  10. 25 — 27
  11. 28 — 30
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  47. 136 — 138
  48. 139 — 141
  49. 142 — 144
  50. 145 — 147
  51. 148 — 150
  52. 151 — 153
  53. 154
Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
- Work
- Poem
  1. Titlepage
  2. Dedication
  3. 1 — 3
  4. 4 — 6
  5. 7 — 9
  6. 10 — 12
  7. 13 — 15
  8. 16 — 18
  9. 19 — 21
  10. 22 — 24
  11. 25 — 27
  12. 28 — 30
  13. 31 — 33
  14. 34 — 36
  15. 37 — 39
  16. 40 — 42
  17. 43 — 45
  18. 46 — 48
  19. 49 — 51
  20. 52 — 54
  21. 55 — 57
  22. 58 — 60
  23. 61 — 63
  24. 64 — 66
  25. 67 — 69
  26. 70 — 72
  27. 73 — 75
  28. 76 — 78
  29. 79 — 81
  30. 82 — 84
  31. 85 — 87
  32. 88 — 90
  33. 91 — 93
  34. 94 — 96
  35. 97 — 99
  36. 100 — 102
  37. 103 — 105
  38. 106 — 108
  39. 109 — 111
  40. 112 — 114
  41. 115 — 117
  42. 118 — 120
  43. 121 — 123
  44. 124 — 126
  45. 127 — 129
  46. 130 — 132
  47. 133 — 135
  48. 136 — 138
  49. 139 — 141
  50. 142 — 144
  51. 145 — 147
  52. 148 — 150
  53. 151 — 153
  54. 154
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¶I42
¶LOue is my sinne,_and thy deare vertue hate, 
¶Hate of my sinne,_grounded on sinfull louing, 
¶O but with mine, compare thou thine owne state , 
2120And thou shalt finde it merrits not reproouing, 
¶Or if it do , not from those lips of thine, 
¶That haue prophan'd their scarlet ornaments, 
¶And seald false bonds of loue as oft as mine, 
¶Robd others beds reuenues of their rents. 
2125Be it lawfull I loue thee as thou lou'st those, 
¶Whome thine eyes wooe as mine importune thee, 
¶Roote pittie in thy heart that when it growes, 
¶Thy pitty may deserue to pittied bee. 
¶_If thou doost seeke to haue what thou doost hide, 
2130By selfe example mai'st thou be denide. 

¶I43
¶LOe as a carefull huswife runnes to catch, 
¶One of her fethered creatures broake away, 
¶Sets downe her babe and makes all swift dispatch 
2135In pursuit of the thing she would haue stay: 
¶Whilst her neglected child holds her in chace, 
¶Cries to catch her whose busie care is bent, 
¶To follow that which flies before her face: 
¶Not prizing her poore infants discontent; 
2140So runst thou after that which flies from thee, 
¶Whilst I thy babe chace thee a farre behind, 
¶But if thou catch thy hope turne back to me: 
¶And play the mothers part kisse me,_be kind. 
¶_So will I pray that thou maist haue thy Will, 
2145If thou turne back and my loude crying still. 

¶I44
¶TWo loues I haue of comfort and dispaire, 
¶Which like two spirits do sugiest me still, 
¶The better angell is a man right faire: 
2150The worser spirit a woman collour'd il. 
¶To win me soone to hell my femall euill, 
¶Tempteth my better angel from my sight, 
¶And would corrupt my saint to be a diuel: 
¶Wooing his purity with her fowle pride. 
2155And whether that my angel be turn'd finde, 
¶Suspect I may,_yet not directly tell, 
¶But being both from me both to each friend, 
¶I gesse one angel in an others hel. 
¶_Yet this shal I nere know but liue in doubt, 
2160Till my bad angel fire my good one out. 

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