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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXLII</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,<BR> | |
| Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:<BR> | |
| O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,<BR> | |
| And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;<BR> | |
| Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,<BR> | |
| That have profaned their scarlet ornaments<BR> | |
| And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,<BR> | |
| Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.<BR> | |
| Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those<BR> | |
| Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:<BR> | |
| Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows<BR> | |
| Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.<BR> | |
| If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,<BR> | |
| By self-example mayst thou be denied!<BR> | |
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