Sonnet LXXXVIII
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When thou shalt be disposed to set me light, | 1
And place my merit in the eye of scorn, | 2
Upon thy side against myself I'll fight, | 3
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn. | 4
With mine own weakness being best acquainted, | 5
Upon thy part I can set down a story | 6
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted, | 7
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory: | 8
And I by this will be a gainer too; | 9
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee, | 10
The injuries that to myself I do, | 11
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me. | 12
Such is my love, to thee I so belong, | 13
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. | 14
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