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Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
SHAKE-SPEARES
1971And truly not the morning Sun of Heauen
1972Better becomes the gray cheeks of th'East,
1973Nor that full Starre that vshers in the Eauen
1975As those two morning eyes become thy face:
1976O let it then as well beseeme thy heart
1977To mourne for me since mourning doth thee grace,
1978And sute thy pitty like in euery part.
1980And all they foule that thy complexion lacke.
1981I33
1983For that deepe wound it giues my friend and me;
1984I'st not ynough to torture me alone,
1986Me from my selfe thy cruell eye hath taken,
1989A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed :
1991But then my friends heart let my poore heart bale,
1992Who ere keepes me, let my heart be his garde,
1995Perforce am thine and all that is in me.
1996I34
1998And I my selfe am morgag'd to thy will,
2001But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
2002For thou art couetous, and he is kinde,
2003He learnd but suretie-like to write for me,
2004Vnder that bond that him as fast doth binde.
2005The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
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