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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“So, now I have confess’d that he is thine”
Sonnet CXXXIV
| SO, now I have confess’d that he is thine |
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| And I myself am mortgag’d to thy will, |
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| Myself I ’ll forfeit, so that other mine |
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| Thou wilt restore, to be my comfort still: |
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| But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free, |
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| For thou art covetous and he is kind; |
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| He learn’d but surety-like to write for me, |
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| Under that bond that him as fast doth bind. |
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| The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take, |
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| Thou usurer, that putt’st forth all to use, |
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| And sue a friend came debtor for my sake; |
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| So him I lose through my unkind abuse. |
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| Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me: |
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| He pays the whole, and yet am I not free. |
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