Author: William ShakespeareEditors: Hardy M. Cook, Ian LancashirePeer Reviewed
Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
2027IF thy
soule check thee that I come
so neere,
2028Sweare to thy blind
soule that I was thy
Will,
2029And will thy
soule knowes is admitted there,
2030Thus farre for loue, my loue-
sute
sweet full
fill.
2031Will, will ful
fill the trea
sure of thy loue,
2032I
fill it full with wils,
and my will one,
2033In things of great receit with ea
se we prooue.
2034Among a number one is reckon'd none.
2035Then in the number let me pa
sse vntold,
2036Though in thy
stores account I one mu
st be,
2037For nothing hold me,
so it plea
se thee hold,
2038That nothing me,
a
some-thing
sweet to thee.
2039 Make but my name thy loue,
and loue that
still,
2040 And then thou loue
st me for my name is
Will.
2042THou blinde foole loue,
what doo
st thou to mine eyes,
2043That they behold and
see not what they
see :
2044They know what beautie is,
see where it lyes,
2045Yet what the be
st is,
take the wor
st to be.
2046If eyes corrupt by ouer-partiall lookes,
2047Be anchord in the baye where all men ride,
2048Why of eyes fal
sehood ha
st thou forged hookes,
2049Whereto the iudgement of my heart is tide ?
2050Why
should my heart thinke that a
seuerall plot,
2051Which my heart knowes the wide worlds common place?
2052Or mine eyes
seeing this,
say this is not
2053To put faire truth vpon
so foule a face,
2054 In things right true my heart and eyes haue erred,
2055 And to this fal
se plague are they now tran
sferred.
2057WHen my loue
sweares that
she is made of truth,
2058I do beleeue her though I know
she lyes,
2059That
she might thinke me
some vntuterd youth,
2060Vnlearned in the worlds fal
se
subtilties.
2061Thus vainely thinking that
she thinkes me young,
2062Although
she knowes my dayes are pa
st the be
st,
2063Simply I credit her fal
se
speaking tongue,
2064On both
sides thus is
simple truth
suppre
st :
2065But wherefore
sayes
she not
she is vniu
st ?
2066And wherefore
say not I that I am old?
2067O loues be
st habit is in
seeming tru
st,
2068And age in loue,
loues not t'haue yeares told.
2069 Therefore I lye with her,
and
she with me,
2070 And in our faults by lyes we
flattered be.