2207O me! What eyes hath love put in my head,

2208Which have no correspondence with true sight?

2209Or if they have, where is my judgment fled,

2210That censures falsely what they see aright?

2211If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,

2212What means the world to say it is not so?

2213If it be not, then love doth well denote,

2214Love's eye is not so true as all men's no,

2215How can it? O how can love's eye be true,

2216That is so vexed with watching and with tears?

2217No marvel then though I mistake my view:

2218The sun itself sees not, till heaven clears.

2219 O cunning love, with tears thou keep'st me blind,

2220 Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.

2222Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not,

2223When I against myself with thee partake?

2224Do I not think on thee, when I forgot

2225Am of myself--all, tyrant, for thy sake?

2226Who hateth thee, that I do call my friend?

2227On whom frown'st thou, that I do fawn upon?

2228Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend

2229Revenge upon myself with present moan?

2230What merit do I in myself respect

2231That is so proud thy service to despise,

2232When all my best doth worship thy defect,

2233Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?

2234 But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind:

2235 Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind.

2237O from what power hast thou this powerful might,

2238With insufficiency my heart to sway,

2239To make me give the lie to my true sight,

2240And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?

2241Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,

2242That in the very refuse of thy deeds

2243There is such strength and warrantise of skill

2244That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds?

2245Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,

2246The more I hear and see just cause of hate?

2247Oh, though I love what others do abhor,

2248With others thou shouldst not abhor my state.

2249 If thy unworthiness raised love in me,

2250 More worthy I to be beloved of thee.