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03-09-2009, 02:10 AM
Sonnet #144

CXLIV.br /br /Two loves I have of comfort and despair,br /Which like two spirits do suggest me still:br /The better angel is a man right fair,br /The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.br /To win me soon to hell, my female evilbr /Tempteth my better angel from my side,br /And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,br /Wooing his purity with her foul pride.br /And whether that my angel be turn'd fiendbr /Suspect I may, but not directly tell;br /But being both from me, both to each friend,br /I guess one angel in another's hell:br /Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,br /Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

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