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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“When thou shalt be dispos’d to set me light”
Sonnet LXXXVIII
| WHEN thou shalt be dispos’d to set me light |
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| And place my merit in the eye of scorn, |
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| Upon thy side against myself I ’ll fight, |
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| And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn. |
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| With mine own weakness, being best acquainted, |
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| Upon thy part I can set down a story |
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| Of faults conceal’d, wherein I am attainted; |
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| That thou in losing me shalt win much glory: |
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| And I by this will be a gainer too; |
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| For bending all my loving thoughts on thee, |
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| The injuries that to myself I do, |
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| Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me. |
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| Such is my love, to thee I so belong, |
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| That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. |
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