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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“When my love swears that she is made of truth”
Sonnet CXXXVIII
| WHEN my love swears that she is made of truth |
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| I do believe her, though I know she lies, |
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| That she might think me some untutor’d youth, |
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| Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties. |
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| Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, |
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| Although she knows my days are past the best, |
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| Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: |
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| On both sides thus is simple truth supprest. |
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| But wherefore says she not she is unjust? |
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| And wherefore say not I that I am old? |
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| O! love’s best habit is in seeming trust, |
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| And age in love loves not to have years told: |
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| Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, |
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| And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be. |
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