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10-20-2008, 02:10 AM
Sonnet #84
LXXXIV.br /br /Who is it that says most? which can say morebr /Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?br /In whose confine immured is the storebr /Which should example where your equal grew.br /Lean penury within that pen doth dwellbr /That to his subject lends not some small glory;br /But he that writes of you, if he can tellbr /That you are you, so dignifies his story,br /Let him but copy what in you is writ,br /Not making worse what nature made so clear,br /And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,br /Making his style admired every where.br /You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,br /Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
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LXXXIV.br /br /Who is it that says most? which can say morebr /Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?br /In whose confine immured is the storebr /Which should example where your equal grew.br /Lean penury within that pen doth dwellbr /That to his subject lends not some small glory;br /But he that writes of you, if he can tellbr /That you are you, so dignifies his story,br /Let him but copy what in you is writ,br /Not making worse what nature made so clear,br /And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,br /Making his style admired every where.br /You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,br /Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
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