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Sonnet XXXV pdf version
 
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:1
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;2
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,3
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.4
All men make faults, and even I in this,5
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,6
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,7
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;8
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense--9
Thy adverse party is thy advocate--10
And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:11
Such civil war is in my love and hate12
    That I an accessary needs must be13
    To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.14