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- Edition: The Sonnets
Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
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SHAKE-SPEARES
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317So long as youth and thou are of one date,
318But when in thee times forrwes I behould,
319Then look I death my daies should expiate.
320For all that beauty that doth couer thee,
321Is but the seemely rayment of my heart,
323How can I then be elder then thou art?
326Bearing thy heart which I will keepe so chary
327As tender nurse her babe from faring ill,
329Thou gau'st me thine not to giue backe againe.
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332Who with his feare is put besides his part,
336The perfect ceremony of loues right,
338Ore-charg'd with burthen of mine owne loues might:
339O let my books be then the eloquence,
341Who pleade for loue, and look for recompence,
342More then that tonge that more hath more exprest.
344To heare wit eies belongs to loues fine wiht.
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347Thy beauties forme in table of my heart,
348My body is the frame wherein ti's held,
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