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12-22-2008, 03:10 AM
Sonnet #111
CXI.br /br /O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,br /The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,br /That did not better for my life providebr /Than public means which public manners breeds.br /Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,br /And almost thence my nature is subduedbr /To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:br /Pity me then and wish I were renew'd;br /Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drinkbr /Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infectionbr /No bitterness that I will bitter think,br /Nor double penance, to correct correction.br /Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure yebr /Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
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CXI.br /br /O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,br /The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,br /That did not better for my life providebr /Than public means which public manners breeds.br /Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,br /And almost thence my nature is subduedbr /To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:br /Pity me then and wish I were renew'd;br /Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drinkbr /Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infectionbr /No bitterness that I will bitter think,br /Nor double penance, to correct correction.br /Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure yebr /Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
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