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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXXI</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,<BR> | |
| When not to be receives reproach of being,<BR> | |
| And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd<BR> | |
| Not by our feeling but by others' seeing:<BR> | |
| For why should others false adulterate eyes<BR> | |
| Give salutation to my sportive blood?<BR> | |
| Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,<BR> | |
| Which in their wills count bad what I think good?<BR> | |
| No, I am that I am, and they that level<BR> | |
| At my abuses reckon up their own:<BR> | |
| I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel;<BR> | |
| By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown;<BR> | |
| Unless this general evil they maintain,<BR> | |
| All men are bad, and in their badness reign.<BR> | |
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