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Sonnet XXXVI pdf version
 
Let me confess that we two must be twain,1
Although our undivided loves are one:2
So shall those blots that do with me remain3
Without thy help by me be borne alone.4
In our two loves there is but one respect,5
Though in our lives a separable spite,6
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,7
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.8
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,9
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,10
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,11
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:12
    But do not so; I love thee in such sort13
    As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.14