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| <BLOCKQUOTE>Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press<BR> | |
| My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;<BR> | |
| Lest sorrow lend me words and words express<BR> | |
| The manner of my pity-wanting pain.<BR> | |
| If I might teach thee wit, better it were,<BR> | |
| Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;<BR> | |
| As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,<BR> | |
| No news but health from their physicians know;<BR> | |
| For if I should despair, I should grow mad,<BR> | |
| And in my madness might speak ill of thee:<BR> | |
| Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,<BR> | |
| Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be,<BR> | |
| That I may not be so, nor thou belied,<BR> | |
| Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.<BR> | |
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