Sonnet #36

XXXVI.br /br /Let me confess that we two must be twain,br /Although our undivided loves are one:br /So shall those blots that do with me remainbr /Without thy help by me be borne alone.br /In our two loves there is but one respect,br /Though in our lives a separable spite,br /Which though it alter not love's sole effect,br /Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.br /I may not evermore acknowledge thee,br /Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,br /Nor thou with public kindness honour me,br /Unless thou take that honour from thy name:br /But do not so; I love thee in such sortbr /As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

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