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O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
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With insufficiency my heart to sway?
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To make me give the lie to my true sight,
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And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
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Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
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That in the very refuse of thy deeds
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There is such strength and warrantize of skill
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That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
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Who taught thee how to make me love thee more
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The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
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O, though I love what others do abhor,
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With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
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If thy unworthiness raised love in me,
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More worthy I to be beloved of thee.
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