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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXXV</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,<BR> | |
| With my extern the outward honouring,<BR> | |
| Or laid great bases for eternity,<BR> | |
| Which prove more short than waste or ruining?<BR> | |
| Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour<BR> | |
| Lose all, and more, by paying too much rent,<BR> | |
| For compound sweet forgoing simple savour,<BR> | |
| Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?<BR> | |
| No, let me be obsequious in thy heart,<BR> | |
| And take thou my oblation, poor but free,<BR> | |
| Which is not mix'd with seconds, knows no art,<BR> | |
| But mutual render, only me for thee.<BR> | |
| Hence, thou suborn'd informer! a true soul<BR> | |
| When most impeach'd stands least in thy control.<BR> | |
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