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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“So shall I live, supposing thou art true”
Sonnet XCIII
SO shall I live, supposing thou art true |
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Like a deceived husband; so love’s face |
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May still seem love to me, though alter’d new; |
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Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: |
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For there can live no hatred in thine eye, |
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Therefore in that I cannot know thy change. |
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In many’s looks, the false heart’s history |
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Is writ in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange, |
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But heaven in thy creation did decree |
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That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell; |
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Whate’er thy thoughts or thy heart’s workings be, |
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Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell. |
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How like Eve’s apple doth thy beauty grow, |
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If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show! |
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