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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Alas! ’tis true I have gone here and there”
Sonnet CX
ALAS! ’tis true I have gone here and there |
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And made myself a motley to the view, |
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Gor’d mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, |
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Made old offences of affections new; |
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Most true it is that I have look’d on truth |
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Askance and strangely; but, by all above, |
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These blenches gave my heart another youth, |
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And worse essays prov’d thee my best of love. |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end: |
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Mine appetite I never more will grind |
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On newer proof, to try an older friend, |
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A god in love, to whom I am confin’d. |
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Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, |
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Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. |
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