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