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02-13-2009, 03:10 AM
Sonnet #134

CXXXIV.br /br /So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,br /And I myself am mortgaged to thy will,br /Myself I'll forfeit, so that other minebr /Thou wilt restore, to be my comfort still:br /But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,br /For thou art covetous and he is kind;br /He learn'd but surety-like to write for mebr /Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.br /The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,br /Thou usurer, that put'st forth all to use,br /And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;br /So him I lose through my unkind abuse.br /Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:br /He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.

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