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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXXIX</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>The expense of spirit in a waste of shame<BR> | |
| Is lust in action; and till action, lust<BR> | |
| Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,<BR> | |
| Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,<BR> | |
| Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,<BR> | |
| Past reason hunted, and no sooner had<BR> | |
| Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait<BR> | |
| On purpose laid to make the taker mad;<BR> | |
| Mad in pursuit and in possession so;<BR> | |
| Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;<BR> | |
| A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;<BR> | |
| Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.<BR> | |
| All this the world well knows; yet none knows well<BR> | |
| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.<BR> | |
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