William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CLII
In loving
thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice
forsworn, to me love swearing;
In act thy bed-vow
broke, and new faith torn,
In vowing new hate
after new love bearing:
But why of two oaths'
breach do I accuse thee,
When I break twenty?
I am perjur'd most;
For all my vows are
oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest
faith in thee is lost:
For I have sworn deep
oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love,
thy truth, thy constancy;
And, to enlighten
thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear
against the thing they see;
For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur'd I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie.!
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