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Sonnet CXXIX
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| The expense of spirit in a waste of shame | 1
| Is lust in action; and till action, lust | 2
| Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, | 3
| Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, | 4
| Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, | 5
| Past reason hunted, and no sooner had | 6
| Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait | 7
| On purpose laid to make the taker mad; | 8
| Mad in pursuit and in possession so; | 9
| Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; | 10
| A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; | 11
| Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. | 12
| All this the world well knows; yet none knows well | 13
| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. | 14
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