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1 | I | From fairest creatures we desire increase,
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2 | II | When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
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3 | III | Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
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ALSO RSC, Leo Wan
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4 | IV | Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
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ALSO (includes music)
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5 | V | Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
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6 | VI | Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
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7 | VII | Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
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8 | VIII | Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
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9 | IX | Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
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10 | X | For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,
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11 | XI | As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
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12 | XII | When I do count the clock that tells the time,
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13 | XIII | O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
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14 | XIV | Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
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15 | XV | When I consider every thing that grows
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16 | XVI | But wherefore do not you a mightier way
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17 | VII | Who will believe my verse in time to come,
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18 | XVIII | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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ALSO Coronation street and Emmerdale
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ALSO REVIEW AMATEUR
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19 | IX | Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
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20 | XX | A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
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21 | XXI | So is it not with me as with that Muse
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ALSO REVIEW (with text)
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22 | XXII | My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
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23 | XXIII | As an unperfect actor on the stage
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ALSO Aubrey Rhodes
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24 | XXIV | Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
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25 | XXV | Let those who are in favour with their stars
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26 | XXVI | Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
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27 | XXVII | Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
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28 | XXVIII | How can I then return in happy plight,
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29 | XXIX | When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
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30 | XXX | When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
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ALSO Branagh
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ALSO ??Alex Jennings (in memoriam)
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31 | XXXI | Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
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32 | XXXII | If thou survive my well-contented day,
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33 | XXXIII | Full many a glorious morning have I seen
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34 | XXXIV | Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
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35 | XXXV | No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
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ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)
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36 | XXXVI | Let me confess that we two must be twain,
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37 | XXXVII | As a decrepit father takes delight
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ALSO Nonso Anozie
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38 | XXXVIII | How can my Muse want subject to invent,
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39 | XXXIX | O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
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40 | XL | Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
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41 | XLI | Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
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42 | XLII | That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
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43 | XLIII | When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
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44 | XLIV | If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
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45 | XLV | The other two, slight air and purging fire,
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46 | XLVI | Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
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47 | XLVII | Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
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ALSO Brave new world, Anthony Howell
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48 | XLVIII | How careful was I, when I took my way,
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ALSO Brave new world, Isabelle Anderson
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49 | XLIX | Against that time, if ever that time come,
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50 | L | How heavy do I journey on the way,
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51 | LI | Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
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ALSO ?? (with text)
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52 | LII | So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
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ALSO Sam Alexander
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53 | LIII | What is your substance, whereof are you made,
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54 | LIV | O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
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55 | LV | Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
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56 | LVI | Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
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57 | LVII | Being your slave, what should I do but tend
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58 | VIII | That god forbid that made me first your slave,
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59 | LIX | If there be nothing new, but that which is
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60 | LX | Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
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ALSO Festival of love, Oliver Ford Davies
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61 | LXI | Is it thy will thy image should keep open
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62 | LXII | Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
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63 | LXIII | Against my love shall be, as I am now,
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64 | LXIV | When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
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65 | LXV | Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
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66 | LXVI | Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
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ALSO (German, wierd)
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67 | LXVII | Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
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68 | LXVIII | Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
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69 | LXIX | Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
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70 | LXX | That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
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71 | LXXI | No longer mourn for me when I am dead
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72 | LXXII | O, lest the world should task you to recite
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73 | LXXIII | That time of year thou mayst in me behold
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74 | LXXIV | But be contented: when that fell arrest
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75 | LXXV | So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
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76 | LXXVI | Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
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77 | LXXVII | Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
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78 | LXXVIII | So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
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79 | LXXIX | Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
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80 | LXXX | O, how I faint when I of you do write,
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81 | LXXXI | Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
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82 | LXXXII | I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
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83 | LXXXIII | I never saw that you did painting need
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84 | LXXXIV | Who is it that says most? which can say more
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85 | LXXXV | My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
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86 | LXXXVI | Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
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87 | LXXXVII | Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
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88 | LXXXVIII | When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
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89 | LXXXIX | Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
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90 | XC | Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
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91 | XCI | Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
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ALSO Ruby Dee
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92 | XCII | But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
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93 | XCIII | So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
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94 | XCIV | They that have power to hurt and will do none,
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95 | XCV | How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
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96 | XCVI | Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
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97 | XCVII | How like a winter hath my absence been
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98 | XCVIII | From you have I been absent in the spring,
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99 | XCIX | The forward violet thus did I chide:
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100 | C | Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
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101 | CI | O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
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102 | CII | My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
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103 | CIII | Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,
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104 | CIV | To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
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105 | CV | Let not my love be call'd idolatry,
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106 | CVI | When in the chronicle of wasted time
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107 | CVII | Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
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108 | CVIII | What's in the brain that ink may character
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109 | CIX | O, never say that I was false of heart,
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110 | CX | Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
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111 | CXI | O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
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112 | CXII | Your love and pity doth the impression fill
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113 | CXIII | Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
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114 | CXIV | Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
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115 | CXV | Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
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116 | CXVI | Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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117 | CXVII | Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
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118 | CXVIII | Like as, to make our appetites more keen,
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119 | CXIX | What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
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120 | CXX | That you were once unkind befriends me now,
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121 | CXXI | 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
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122 | CXXII | Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
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123 | CXXIII | No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
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124 | CXXIV | If my dear love were but the child of state,
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125 | CXXV | Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,
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126 | CXXVI | O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
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127 | CXXVII | In the old age black was not counted fair,
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128 | CXXVIII | How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,
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129 | CXXIX | The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
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ALSO Newsnight, Ralph Fiennes
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130 | CXXX | My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
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131 | CXXXI | Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
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132 | CXXXII | Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
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133 | CXXXIII | Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
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134 | CXXXIV | So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,
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135 | CXXXV | Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
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136 | CXXXVI | If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near,
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137 | CXXXVII | Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
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138 | CXXXVIII | When my love swears that she is made of truth
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139 | CXXXIX | O, call not me to justify the wrong
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140 | CXL | Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
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141 | CXLI | In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
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142 | CXLII | Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
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143 | CXLIII | Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch
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144 | CXLIV | Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
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145 | CXLV | Those lips that Love's own hand did make
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146 | CXLVI | Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
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147 | CXLVII | My love is as a fever, longing still
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148 | CXLVIII | O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
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149 | CXLIX | Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
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150 | CL | O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
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151 | CLI | Love is too young to know what conscience is;
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152 | CLII | In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
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153 | CLIII | Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
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154 | CLIV | The little Love-god lying once asleep
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