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Sonnet CII
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
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I love not less, though less the show appear:
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That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
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The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
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Our love was new and then but in the spring
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When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
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As Philomel in summer's front doth sing
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And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
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Not that the summer is less pleasant now
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Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
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But that wild music burthens every bough
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And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,
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Because I would not dull you with my song.
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