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Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
SHAKE-SPEARES
28 This were to be new made when thou art ould,
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32Now is the time that face should forme an other,
36Disdaines the tillage of thy husbandry?
37Or who is he so fond will be the tombe,
40Calls backe the louely Aprill of her prime,
42Dispight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.
43 But if thou liue remembred not to be,
44Die single and thine Image dies with thee.
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47Vpon thy selfe thy beauties legacy?
48Natures bequest giues nothing but doth lend,
51The bountious largesse giuen thee to giue?
56Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
57What acceptable Audit can'st thou leaue?
59Which vsed liues th'executor to be.
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62The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell
63Will play the tirants to the very same,
And