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02-20-2009, 03:10 AM
Sonnet #137
CXXXVII.br /br /Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,br /That they behold, and see not what they see?br /They know what beauty is, see where it lies,br /Yet what the best is take the worst to be.br /If eyes corrupt by over-partial looksbr /Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,br /Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,br /Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?br /Why should my heart think that a several plotbr /Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?br /Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not,br /To put fair truth upon so foul a face?br /In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,br /And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.
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CXXXVII.br /br /Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,br /That they behold, and see not what they see?br /They know what beauty is, see where it lies,br /Yet what the best is take the worst to be.br /If eyes corrupt by over-partial looksbr /Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,br /Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,br /Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?br /Why should my heart think that a several plotbr /Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?br /Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not,br /To put fair truth upon so foul a face?br /In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,br /And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.
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