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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“O! call not me to justify the wrong”
Sonnet CXXXIX
| O! CALL not me to justify the wrong |
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| That thy unkindness lays upon my heart; |
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| Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue: |
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| Use power with power, and slay me not by art. |
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| Tell me thou lovest elsewhere; but in my sight, |
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| Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside: |
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| What need’st thou wound with cunning, when thy might |
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| Is more than my o’erpress’d defence can bide? |
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| Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows |
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| Her pretty looks have been my enemies; |
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| And therefore from my face she turns my foes, |
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| That they elsewhere might dart their injuries: |
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| Yet do not so; but since I am near slain, |
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| Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain. |
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