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| SONNET 129 |
| The expense of spirit in a waste of shame |
| Is lust in action; and till action, lust |
| Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, |
| Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, |
| Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, |
| Past reason hunted, and no sooner had |
| Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait |
| On purpose laid to make the taker mad; |
| Mad in pursuit and in possession so; |
| Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; |
| A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; |
| Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. |
| All this the world well knows; yet none knows well |
| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. |
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