| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet XLVI |
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| SONNET 46 |
| Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war |
| How to divide the conquest of thy sight; |
| Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar, |
| My heart mine eye the freedom of that right. |
| My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie-- |
| A closet never pierced with crystal eyes-- |
| But the defendant doth that plea deny |
| And says in him thy fair appearance lies. |
| To 'cide this title is impanneled |
| A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, |
| And by their verdict is determined |
| The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part: |
| As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part, |
| And my heart's right thy inward love of heart. |
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