William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXXXIII
Beshrew that
heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound
it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to
torture me alone,
But slave to slavery
my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy
cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou
harder hast engross'd:
Of him, myself, and
thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold
thus to be cross'd:
Prison my heart in
thy steel bosom's ward,
But then my friend's
heart let my poor heart bail;
Whoe'er keeps me,
let my heart be his guard;
Thou canst not then
use rigour in my jail:
And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,
Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.
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