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Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
SHAKE-SPEARES
2116I42
2119O but with mine, compare thou thine owne state ,
2121Or if it do , not from those lips of thine,
2122That haue prophan'd their scarlet ornaments,
2124Robd others beds reuenues of their rents.
2126Whome thine eyes wooe as mine importune thee,
2127Roote pittie in thy heart that when it growes,
2128Thy pitty may deserue to pittied bee.
2131I43
2133One of her fethered creatures broake away,
2138To follow that which flies before her face:
2139Not prizing her poore infants discontent;
2141Whilst I thy babe chace thee a farre behind,
2142But if thou catch thy hope turne back to me:
2145If thou turne back and my loude crying still.
2146I44
2149The better angell is a man right faire:
2151To win me soone to hell my femall euill,
Tempteth