| SONNET 152 |
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| In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn, |
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| But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing, |
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| In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn, |
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| In vowing new hate after new love bearing. |
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| But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee, |
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| When I break twenty? I am perjured most; |
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| For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee |
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| And all my honest faith in thee is lost, |
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| For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness, |
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| Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy, |
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| And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness, |
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| Or made them swear against the thing they see; |
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| For I have sworn thee fair; more perjured I, |
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| To swear against the truth so foul a lie! |
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