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02-25-2009, 03:10 AM
Sonnet #139
CXXXIX.br /br /O, call not me to justify the wrongbr /That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;br /Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue;br /Use power with power and slay me not by art.br /Tell me thou lovest elsewhere, but in my sight,br /Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:br /What need'st thou wound with cunning when thy mightbr /Is more than my o'er-press'd defense can bide?br /Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knowsbr /Her pretty looks have been mine enemies,br /And therefore from my face she turns my foes,br /That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:br /Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,br /Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain.
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CXXXIX.br /br /O, call not me to justify the wrongbr /That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;br /Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue;br /Use power with power and slay me not by art.br /Tell me thou lovest elsewhere, but in my sight,br /Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:br /What need'st thou wound with cunning when thy mightbr /Is more than my o'er-press'd defense can bide?br /Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knowsbr /Her pretty looks have been mine enemies,br /And therefore from my face she turns my foes,br /That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:br /Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,br /Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain.
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