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Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
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SONNETS.
2152Tempteth my better angel from my sight,
2153And would corrupt my saint to be a diuel:
2154Wooing his purity with her fowle pride.
2155And whether that my angel be turn'd finde,
2157But being both from me both to each friend,
2158I gesse one angel in an others hel.
2160Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
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2166Straight in her heart did mercie come,
2167Chiding that tongue that euer sweet,
2168Was vsde in giuing gentle dome:
2169And tought it thus a new to greete:
2170I hate she alterd with an end,
2171That follow'd it as gentle day,
2172Doth follow night who like a fiend
2173From heauen to hell is flowne away.
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2183Shall wormes inheritors of this excesse
2184Eate vp thy charge? is this thy bodies end?
2186And let that pine to aggrauat thy store;
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