| SONNET 41 |
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| Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, |
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| When I am sometime absent from thy heart, |
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| Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, |
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| For still temptation follows where thou art. |
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| Gentle thou art and therefore to be won, |
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| Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed; |
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| And when a woman woos, what woman's son |
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| Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed? |
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| Ay me! but yet thou mightest my seat forbear, |
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| And chide try beauty and thy straying youth, |
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| Who lead thee in their riot even there |
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| Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth, |
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| Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee, |
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| Thine, by thy beauty being false to me. |
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