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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan”
Sonnet CXXXIII
| BESHREW that heart that makes my heart to groan |
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| For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! |
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| Is ’t not enough to torture me alone, |
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| But slave to slavery my sweet’st friend must be? |
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| Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken, |
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| And my next self thou harder hast engross’d: |
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| Of him, myself, and thee, I am forsaken; |
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| A torment thrice threefold thus to be cross’d. |
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| Prison my heart in thy steel bosom’s ward, |
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| But then my friend’s heart let my poor heart bail; |
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| Whoe’er keeps me, let my heart be his guard; |
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| Thou canst not then use rigour in my jail: |
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| And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee, |
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| Perforce am thine, and all that is in me. |
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