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
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  40. 115 — 117
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  46. 133 — 135
  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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¶I48
¶O Me ! what eyes hath loue put in my head, 
¶Which haue no correspondence with true sight, 
¶Or if they haue,_where is my iudgment fled, 
2210That censures falsely what they see aright ? 
¶If that be faire whereon my false eyes dote, 
¶What meanes the world to say it is not so ? 
¶If it be not,_then loue doth well denote, 
¶Loues eye is not so true as all mens:no, 
2215How can it ? O how can loues eye be true, 
¶That is so vext with watching and with teares?
¶No maruaile then though I mistake my view, 
¶The sunne it selfe sees not,_till heauen cleeres. 
¶_O cunning loue,_with teares thou keepst me blinde, 
2220Least eyes well seeing thy foule faults should finde. 

¶I49
¶CAnst thou O cruell,_say I loue thee not, 
¶When I against my selfe with thee pertake : 
¶Doe I not thinke on thee when I forgot 
2225Am of my selfe, all tirant for thy sake? 
¶Who hateth thee that I doe call my friend, 
¶On whom froun'st thou that I doe faune vpon, 
¶Nay if thou lowrst on me doe I not spend 
¶Reuenge vpon my selfe with present mone? 
2230What merrit do I in my selfe respect, 
¶That is so proude thy seruice to dispise, 
¶When all my best doth worship thy defect, 
¶Commanded by the motion of thine eyes. 
¶_But loue hate on for now I know thy minde, 
2235Those that can see thou lou'st,_and I am blind. 

¶I50
¶OH from what powre hast thou this powrefull might, 
¶VVith insufficiency my heart to sway, 
¶To make me giue the lie to my true sight, 
2240And swere that brightnesse doth not grace the day? 
¶Whence hast thou this becomming of things il, 
¶That in the very refuse of thy deeds;
¶There is such strength and warrantise of skill, 
¶That in my minde thy worst all best exceeds?
2245Who taught thee how to make me loue thee more, 
¶The more I heare and see iust cause of hate, 
¶Oh though I loue what others doe abhor, 
¶VVith others thou shouldst not abhor my state. 
¶_If thy vnworthinesse raisd loue in me, 
2250More worthy I to be belou'd of thee. 

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