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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXVIII</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>Like as, to make our appetites more keen,<BR> | |
| With eager compounds we our palate urge,<BR> | |
| As, to prevent our maladies unseen,<BR> | |
| We sicken to shun sickness when we purge,<BR> | |
| Even so, being tuff of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,<BR> | |
| To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding<BR> | |
| And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness<BR> | |
| To be diseased ere that there was true needing.<BR> | |
| Thus policy in love, to anticipate<BR> | |
| The ills that were not, grew to faults assured<BR> | |
| And brought to medicine a healthful state<BR> | |
| Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured:<BR> | |
| But thence I learn, and find the lesson true,<BR> | |
| Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.<BR> | |
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