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  Speaker 1: Chapters one through twenty five of Sonnets of William Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 1: by Sam Stinson. Chapter one from Fairest Creatures, we desire
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  Speaker 1: increased that thereby beauty's rose might never die. But as
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  Speaker 1: the riper should, by time deceased, his tender air might
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  Speaker 1: bear his memory. But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
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  Speaker 1: feed'st thy light's flame with self substantial fuel, making a
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  Speaker 1: famine where abundance lies thyself. Thy foe to thy sweet self,
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  Speaker 1: too cruel Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
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  Speaker 1: and only herald to the gaudy spring within thine own
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  Speaker 1: bud buriest, thy content and tender churl makest waste and
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  Speaker 1: niggarding pity the world, or else this glutton bee to
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  Speaker 1: eat the world's due by the grave and thee end
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one, Chapter two, when forty winters shall besiege
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  Speaker 1: thy brow and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
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  Speaker 1: Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now will be
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  Speaker 1: a tattered weed of small worth. Held then being asked
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  Speaker 1: where all thy beauty lies? Where all the treasure of
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  Speaker 1: thy lusty days? To say, within thine own, deep, sunken
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  Speaker 1: eyes were in all eating shame and thriftless praise, how
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  Speaker 1: much more praise deserved thy beauty's use? If thou couldst answer, this,
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  Speaker 1: fair child of mine, shall sum my count and make
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  Speaker 1: my old excuse, proving his beauty by succession thine this
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  Speaker 1: were to be new made when thou art old, and
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  Speaker 1: see thy blood warm, when thou feel'st it cold. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter two, Chapter three, look in thy glass and
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  Speaker 1: tell the face thou viewest. Now is the time that
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  Speaker 1: face should form another whose fresh repair. If now thou
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  Speaker 1: not renewest, thou dost beguile the world and bless some mother?
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  Speaker 1: For where is she so fair, whose uneared womb disdains
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  Speaker 1: the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so
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  Speaker 1: fond will be the tomb of his self love? To
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  Speaker 1: stop posterity, Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in
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  Speaker 1: thee calls back the lovely april of her prime. So thou,
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  Speaker 1: through windows of thine age, shalt see despite of wrinkles
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  Speaker 1: this thy golden time. But if thou live remembered not
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  Speaker 1: to be thy single and thine image dies with THEE.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter three, Chapter unthrifty loveliness. Why dost thou
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  Speaker 1: spend upon thyself thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but doth lend, and being frank, she lends to those
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  Speaker 1: are free. Then BetUS niguard. Why dost thou abuse the
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  Speaker 1: bounteous largest given THEE to give profitless usurer? Why dost
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  Speaker 1: thou use so great a sum of sums? Yet canst
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  Speaker 1: not live for having traffic with thyself alone? Thou of thyself,
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  Speaker 1: thy sweet self, dost deceive? Then? How when nature calls
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  Speaker 1: THEE to be gone, what acceptable aughtit? Canst thou leave?
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  Speaker 1: Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee which used
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  Speaker 1: lives the executor to be End of Chapter four, Chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: Those hours that with gentle work did frame the lovely
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  Speaker 1: gaze wherever eye doth dwell, will play the terrance to
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  Speaker 1: the very same. And that unfair which fairly doth excel
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  Speaker 1: for never resting time leads summer on to hideous winter
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  Speaker 1: and confounds him there sap checked with frost, and lusty
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  Speaker 1: leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er snowed in bareness everywhere? Then,
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  Speaker 1: were not Summer's distillation left a liquid prisoner pent in
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  Speaker 1: walls of glass. Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, nor it,
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  Speaker 1: nor no remembrance what it was. But flowers distilled, though
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  Speaker 1: they with winter meet least, but their show their substance
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  Speaker 1: still lives sweet. End of chapter five. Chapter six. Then
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  Speaker 1: let not Winter's ragged hand efface in thee thy summer.
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  Speaker 1: Ere thou be distilled, make sweet some vile treasure, Thou
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  Speaker 1: some place with beauty's treasure. Ere it be self killed?
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  Speaker 1: That use is not forbidden usury which happies those that
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  Speaker 1: pay the willing loan. That's for thyself to breed another thee?
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  Speaker 1: Or ten times happier be it ten for one ten
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  Speaker 1: times thyself were happier than thou art. If ten of
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  Speaker 1: thine ten times refigured thee, then what could death do?
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  Speaker 1: If thou shouldst depart, leaving THEE living in posterity. Be
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  Speaker 1: not self willed, for thou art much too fair to
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  Speaker 1: be Death's conquest, and make worms thine heir. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, Chapter seven, Lo and the Orient. When the
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  Speaker 1: gracious light lifts up his burning head, each under eye
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  Speaker 1: doth homage to his new appearing sight, serving with looks
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  Speaker 1: his sacred majesty, and having climbed the steep up heavenly hill,
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  Speaker 1: resembling strong youth in his middle age, yet mortal looks
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  Speaker 1: adore his beauty, still attending on his golden pilgrimage. But
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  Speaker 1: when from highmost pitch, with weary car like feeble age,
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  Speaker 1: he reeleth from the day the eyes for dutiest, now converted,
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  Speaker 1: are from his low tract and look another way. So
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  Speaker 1: thou thyself, outgoing in thy noon, unlooked on diest, unless
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  Speaker 1: thou get a sun. End of chapter seven, Chapter eight,
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  Speaker 1: Music to hear. Why hearest thou music sadly, sweets with sweets, war,
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  Speaker 1: not joy, delights in joy. Why lovest thou that which
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  Speaker 1: thou receivest not gladly, or else receivest with pleasure thine
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  Speaker 1: annoy If the true conquered of well tuned sounds, thy
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  Speaker 1: unions married do offend thine ear, they do, but sweetly
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  Speaker 1: chide thee who confounds in singleness the parts that thou
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  Speaker 1: shouldst bear mark how one string sweet husband to another
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  Speaker 1: strikes each in each by mutual ordering, resembling sire and
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  Speaker 1: child and happy mother, who all in one one pleasing
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  Speaker 1: note do sing? Whose speechless song, being many seeming, one
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  Speaker 1: sings this to THEE. Thou single wilt prove none. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter eight, Chapter nine. Is it for fear to
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  Speaker 1: wet a widow's eye that thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: If thou issueless shalt hap to die, the world will
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  Speaker 1: wail thee like a makeless wife. The world will be
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  Speaker 1: thy widow, and still weep that thou no form of
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  Speaker 1: THEE hast left behind, When every private widow well may
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  Speaker 1: keep by children's eyes her husband's shape and mind. Look
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  Speaker 1: what an unthrift in the world doth spend shifts but
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  Speaker 1: his place for still the world enjoys it. But beauty's
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  Speaker 1: waste hath in the world an end and kept unused.
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  Speaker 1: The user so destroys it. No love toward others in
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  Speaker 1: that Bosom sits that on himself, such murderous shame commits
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  Speaker 1: end of chapter nine, Chapter ten. For shame, deny that
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  Speaker 1: thou bearest love to any who for thyself art so
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  Speaker 1: unprovident grant. If thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
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  Speaker 1: but that thou none lovest is most evident. For thou
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  Speaker 1: art so possessed with murderous hate, that gainst thyself, thou
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  Speaker 1: sti'st not to conspire, seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate,
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  Speaker 1: which to repair should be thy chief desire o change
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  Speaker 1: thy thought, that I may change my mind? Shall hate
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  Speaker 1: be fairer lodged than gentle love, be as thy presence
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  Speaker 1: is gracious and kind, Or to thyself at least kind hearted,
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  Speaker 1: prove make thee another self for love of me, that
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  Speaker 1: beauty still may live in thine or thee end of
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  Speaker 1: chapter ten, chapter eleven. As fast as thou shalt wane,
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  Speaker 1: so fast thou growest in one of thine from that
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  Speaker 1: which thou departest, and that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest,
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  Speaker 1: thou mayst call thine. When thou from youth convertest herein
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  Speaker 1: lives wisdom, beauty, and increase without this folly age and
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  Speaker 1: cold decay. If all were minded, so the times should cease,
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  Speaker 1: and three score year would make the world away. Let
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  Speaker 1: those whom nature hath not made for store harsh, featureless
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  Speaker 1: and rude, barrenly perish, look whom she best endowed. She
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  Speaker 1: gave thee more, which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish.
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  Speaker 1: She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby thou
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  Speaker 1: shouldst print more, not let that copy die. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter eleven, Chapter twelve. When I do count the clock
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  Speaker 1: that tells the time, and see the brave day, sunk
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  Speaker 1: and hideous knight, When I behold the violet past prime
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  Speaker 1: and sable curls, all silver'd o'er with white, When lofty trees,
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  Speaker 1: I see barren of leaves which erst from heat. It
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  Speaker 1: cannopy the herd and summer's green, all girded up in sheaves,
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  Speaker 1: borne on the byre with white and bristly beard. Then
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  Speaker 1: of thy beauty do I question, make that thou, among
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  Speaker 1: the wastes of time, must go, Since sweets and beauties
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  Speaker 1: do themselves forsake and die as fast as they see
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  Speaker 1: others grow, and nothing gainst time. Scythe can make defense,
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  Speaker 1: save breed to brave him when he takes thee. Hence
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  Speaker 1: end of chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen, Oh that you were yourself,
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  Speaker 1: but love you are no longer yours than you yourself
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  Speaker 1: here live against this coming end. You should prepare and
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  Speaker 1: your sweet semblance to some other. Give So should that
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  Speaker 1: beauty which you hold in lease find no determination, then
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  Speaker 1: you were yourself again after yourself's decease, when your sweet issue,
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  Speaker 1: your sweet form should bear. Who let so fair a
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  Speaker 1: house fall to decay, which husbandry and honor might uphold
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  Speaker 1: against the stormy gusts of winter's day and barren rage
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  Speaker 1: of death's eternal cold. Oh, none but unthrift's dear, my love,
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  Speaker 1: you know you had a father. Let your son say so,
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  Speaker 1: And of chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen. Not from the stars
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  Speaker 1: do I my judgment pluck. And yet methinks I have astronomy,
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  Speaker 1: but not to tell of good or evil, luck, of plagues,
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  Speaker 1: of dearths, of season's quality. Nor can I fortune, to
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  Speaker 1: brief minutes tell pointing to each his thunder rain and wind,
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  Speaker 1: or say with princes, if it shall go well by oft,
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  Speaker 1: predict that I in heaven find. But from thine eyes
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  Speaker 1: my knowledge I derive, and constant stars in them I read.
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  Speaker 1: Such art is truth and beauty shall together thrive. If
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  Speaker 1: from thyself to store thou wouldst convert or else of thee.
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  Speaker 1: This I prognosticate thy end is truths and beauty's doom
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  Speaker 1: and date. End of chapter fourteen, Chapter fifteen. When I
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  Speaker 1: consider everything that grows holds in perfection, but a little
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  Speaker 1: moment that this huge stage presenteth nought, but shows whereon
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  Speaker 1: the stars in secret influence. Comment when I perceive that
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  Speaker 1: men as plants increase, cheered and checked even by the
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  Speaker 1: self same sky, vaunt in their youthful sap at height decrease,
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  Speaker 1: and where their brave state out of memory, then the
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  Speaker 1: conceit of this inconstant stay sets you most rich in
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  Speaker 1: youth before my sight, Where wasteful time debateth with decay,
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  Speaker 1: to change your day of youth to sullied night, and
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  Speaker 1: all in war with time for love of you as
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  Speaker 1: he takes from you, I engraft you knew end of
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen, Chapter sixteen. But wherefore do not you a
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  Speaker 1: mightier way make war upon this bloody, tyrant time and
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  Speaker 1: fortify yourself in your decay with means more blessed than
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  Speaker 1: my barren rhyme. Now stand you on the top of
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  Speaker 1: happy hours and many maiden gardens, yet unset with virtuous
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  Speaker 1: wish would bear you living flowers much likeer than your
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  Speaker 1: painted counterfeit. So should the lines of life that life repair,
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  Speaker 1: which this time's pencil or my pupil pen neither in
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  Speaker 1: inward worth nor outward fare, can make you live yourself
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  Speaker 1: in eyes of men. To give away yourself keeps yourself still,
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  Speaker 1: and you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter sixteen, Chapter seventeen. Who will believe my
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  Speaker 1: verse and time to come? If it were filled with
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  Speaker 1: your most high deserts, though yet Heaven knows it is
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  Speaker 1: but as a tomb which hides your life and shows
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  Speaker 1: not half your parts. If I could write the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of your eyes, and in fresh numbers number all your graces,
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  Speaker 1: the age to come would say, this poet lies such
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  Speaker 1: heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces. So should my papers,
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  Speaker 1: yellowed with their age, be scorned like old men of
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  Speaker 1: less truth than tongue, and your true rights be termed
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  Speaker 1: a poet's rage and stretched meter of an antique song.
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  Speaker 1: But were some child of yours alive that time, you
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  Speaker 1: should live twice in it and in my rhyme. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen. Shall I compare THEE to
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  Speaker 1: a summer's day. Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
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  Speaker 1: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and
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  Speaker 1: summer's lease hath all too short a date, sometime too haught.
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  Speaker 1: The eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold
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  Speaker 1: complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometimes declines by
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  Speaker 1: chance or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer
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  Speaker 1: shall not fade, nor lose possession of that fare Thou owest,
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  Speaker 1: nor shall death brag. Thou wanderest in his shade. When
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  Speaker 1: an eternal lines to time, Thou growest so long as
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  Speaker 1: men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this,
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  Speaker 1: and this gives life to THEE. End of Chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen. Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's pause, and
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  Speaker 1: make the earth devour her own sweet brood. Pluck the
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  Speaker 1: keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, and burn the long,
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  Speaker 1: livid phoenix in her blood. Make glad and sorry seasons
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  Speaker 1: as thou fleets, and do whate'er thou wilt, swift footed
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  Speaker 1: time to a wide world in all her fading sweets.
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  Speaker 1: But I forbid thee one most heinous crime O carved
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  Speaker 1: not with thy hours my love's fair brow, nor draw
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  Speaker 1: no lines therewith thine antique pen him in thy course untainted,
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  Speaker 1: do allow for beauty's pattern to succeeding men, Yet do
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  Speaker 1: thy worst old time. Despite thy wrong, my love shall
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  Speaker 1: in my verse ever live young. End of chapter nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty. A woman's face with nature's own hand painted.
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  Speaker 1: Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion, a woman's
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  Speaker 1: gentle heart, but not acquainted with shifting change, as is
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  Speaker 1: false women's fashion, an eye more bright than theirs, less
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  Speaker 1: false en rolling gilding the object, whereupon it gazeth a
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  Speaker 1: man in hue, all hues in his controlling, which steals
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  Speaker 1: men's eyes in women's souls amazeth and for a woman
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  Speaker 1: wert thou first created till nature as she wrought thee
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  Speaker 1: fell adoting, and by addition me of the defeated, by
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  Speaker 1: adding one thing to my purpose nothing but since she
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  Speaker 1: pricked thee out for women's pleasure, mine be thy love,
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  Speaker 1: and thy love's use their treasure. End of chapter twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one. So is it not with me as
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  Speaker 1: with that muse stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,
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  Speaker 1: who heaven itself for ornament doth use, and every fair
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  Speaker 1: with his fair doth rehearse, making a compliment of proud.
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  Speaker 1: Compare with sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
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  Speaker 1: with April's first born flowers, and all things rare that
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's air in this huge rondere hems, Oh, let me
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  Speaker 1: true in love, but truly write, and then believe me
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  Speaker 1: My love is as fair as any mother's child, though
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  Speaker 1: not so bright as though gold candles fixed in Heaven's air.
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  Speaker 1: Let them say more that like of hearsay, well, I
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  Speaker 1: will not praise that purpose not to sell. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one, Chapter twenty two. My glass shall not
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  Speaker 1: persuade me. I am old so long as youth and
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  Speaker 1: thou are of one date. But when indeed time sfurrows
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  Speaker 1: I behold, then look I death my days should expiate.
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  Speaker 1: For all that beauty that doth cover thee is but
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  Speaker 1: the seemly raiment of my heart, which in thy breast
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  Speaker 1: doth live as thine in me. How can I then
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  Speaker 1: be elder than thou art? Oh, therefore, love be of thyself,
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  Speaker 1: so wary as I not for myself, but for thee
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  Speaker 1: will bearing thy heart, which I will keep so cherry
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  Speaker 1: as tender nurse her babe from faring. Ill presume not
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  Speaker 1: on thy heart when mine is slain. Thou gavest me
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  Speaker 1: thine not to give back again. End of chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty three. As an unperfect actor on the stage,
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  Speaker 1: who with his fear, is put beside his part, or
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  Speaker 1: some fierce thing replete with too much rage, whose strength's
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  Speaker 1: abundance weakens his own heart. So I, for fear of trust,
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  Speaker 1: forget to say the perfect ceremony of love's rite, and
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  Speaker 1: in mine own love's strength seem to decay or charged
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  Speaker 1: with burthen of mine own love's might. Oh let my
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  Speaker 1: looks be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my
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  Speaker 1: speaking breast, who plead for love and look for a
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  Speaker 1: recompense more than that tongue that more Hath more expressed. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: learn to read what silent love hath writ to hear
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  Speaker 1: with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. End of chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, Chapter twenty four. Mine eye hath played the painter,
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  Speaker 1: and Hath stell'd thy beauties form in table of my heart.
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  Speaker 1: My body is the frame, wherein tis held in perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it is best painter's art. For through the painter must
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  Speaker 1: you see his skill to find where your true image
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  Speaker 1: pictured lies, which in my bosom's shop is hanging still
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  Speaker 1: that hath his windows glazed with thine eyes. Now see
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  Speaker 1: what good turns eyes, for eyes have done mine eyes
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  Speaker 1: have drawn thy shape in thine for me are windows
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  Speaker 1: to my breast, where through the sun delights to peep,
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  Speaker 1: to gaze therein on thee. Yet eyes this cunning wont
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  Speaker 1: to grace their art. They draw, but what they see
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  Speaker 1: know not the heart. End of chapter twenty four. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. Let those who are in favor with their
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  Speaker 1: stars of public honor and proud titles, boast, whilst I,
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  Speaker 1: who fortune of such triumph bars unlooked for joy in
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  Speaker 1: that I honor most great prince's favorites. Their fair leaves spread,
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  Speaker 1: but as the marigold that the son's eye, and in
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  Speaker 1: themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown, they
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  Speaker 1: and their glory die. The painful warrior, famoused for fight
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  Speaker 1: after a thousand victories, once foiled, is from the book
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  Speaker 1: of honor, raised quiet, and all the rest forgot for
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  Speaker 1: which he toiled. Then happy I that love and am
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  Speaker 1: beloved where eye may not remove nor be removed. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter twenty five. Chapters twenty six through fifty of
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  Speaker 1: Sonnets of William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Lord of my love to whom, in vassalage thy merit
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  Speaker 1: hath my duty strongly knit to THEE. I send this
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  Speaker 1: written embassage to witness duty not to show my wit,
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  Speaker 1: duty so great, which wit so poor as mine may
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  Speaker 1: make seem bare, and wanting words to show it. At that,
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  Speaker 1: I hope some good conceit of thine in thy soul's thought,
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  Speaker 1: all naked, will bestow it till whatsoever star that guide's
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  Speaker 1: my moving points on me graciously with fair aspect and
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  Speaker 1: puts apparel on my tattered loving to show me worthy
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  Speaker 1: of thy sweet respect. Then may I dare to boast
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  Speaker 1: how I do love THEE till then not show my
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: head where thou mayest prove me. And of Chapter twenty
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  Speaker 1: six Chapter twenty seven. Weary with toil, I haste me
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  Speaker 1: to my bed the dear respose for limbs with travel tired,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: but then begins a journey in my head to work
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: my mind when body's works expired. For then my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: from far where I abide, intend a zealous pilgrimage to THEE,
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  Speaker 1: and keep my drooping eyelids open wide looking on darkness
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  Speaker 1: which the blind do see, save that my soul's imaginary
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  Speaker 1: sight presents thy shadow to my sightless view, which like
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  Speaker 1: a jewel hung in ghastly night, makes black night beauteous,
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  Speaker 1: and her old face new lo Thus by day my limbs,
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  Speaker 1: by night, my mind for THEE and for myself no
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: quiet find end of chapter twenty seven, Chapter twenty eight.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: How can I then return in happy plight that am
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: debarred the benefit of rest when day's oppression is not
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: east by night, but day by night, and night by
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: day oppressed, and each though enemies to either's rain, do
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: inconsent and shake hands to torture me, the one by toil,
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  Speaker 1: the other to complain, how far I toil. Still farther
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: off from THEE, I tell the day to please him,
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  Speaker 1: Thou art bright and dost him grace. When clouds do
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: blot the heaven, so flatter I the swart complexion night,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: when sparkling stars twire, not thou guildst thee even. But
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  Speaker 1: day doth daily draw my sorrows longer, and night doth
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  Speaker 1: nightly make grief's length seem stronger. End of chapter twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty nine, when in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I all alone beweep my outcast, stated and trouble deaf heaven,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: with my bootless cries, and look upon myself and curse
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: my fate, wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: featured like him, like him, with friends, possess'd, desiring this
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: man's art and that man's scope, with what I most enjoyed,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: contented least. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising haply,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I think on thee, and then my state, like to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the lark at break of day, arising from sullen earth,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: sings hymns at Heaven's gate for thy sweet love, remember'd
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: such wealth brings that. Then I scorn to change my
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: state with kings. End of chapter twenty nine, Chapter thirty,
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  Speaker 1: when to the sessions of sweet silent thought. I summon
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: up remembrance of things past. I sigh the lack of many,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a thing I sought, and with old woes new wail
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: unused to flow for precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and weep afresh loves long since cancel'd woe and moan
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the expense of many a vanished sight? Then can I
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: grieve at grievances foregone and heavenly from woe to woe?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Oh tell er the sad account of four bemoaned moan
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: which I knew pay as if not paid before. But
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  Speaker 1: if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all
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  Speaker 1: losses are restored In sorrow's end end of chapter thirty
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty one, thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
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  Speaker 1: which I, by lacking have supposed dead, And there reigns
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: love and all love's loving parts, and all those friends
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: which I thought buried. How many a holy and obsequious
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye as
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: interest of the dead, which now appear, but things removed
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: that hidden in thee lie Thou art the grave where
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: buried love doth live, hung with the trophies of my
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: lover's gone, who all their parts of me to THEE
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: did give that doo of many. Now is thine alone
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: their images I love, I view and THEE and thou
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: all they hast, all THEE all of me. End of
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: chapter thirty one, Chapter thirty two. If thou survive my
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  Speaker 1: well contented day, when that churl death, my bones with
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: dust shall cover, and shalt by fortune once more re
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  Speaker 1: survey these poor rude lines of thy deceased lover. Compare
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: them with the bettering of the time, And though they
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: be outstripp'd by every pen, reserve them for my love,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: not for their rhyme exceeded by the height of happier men. Oh,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: then vouchsafe me. But this loving thought had my friend's
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: muse grown with this growing age, a dearer birth than this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: His love had brought to march in ranks of better equipage.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But since he died, and poets better prove theirs for
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: their style, I'll read his for his love. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty two, Chapter thirty three full Many a glorious
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: morning have I seen flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: kissing with golden face, the meadows green yielding pale streams.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: With heavenly alchemy, Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: with ugly rack on his celestial face, and from the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: forlorn world his visage hide, stealing unseen to west with
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: this disgrace. Even so, my sun one early morn did
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: shine with all triumphant splendor on my brow. But out
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: alack he was but one hour mine the region cloud
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: hath mask him from me. Now yet him for this
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: my love, No whit disdaineth, sons of the world may
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: stain when Heaven's sun staineth. End of Chapter thirty three,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty four. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: day and make me travel forth without my cloak, to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: let base clouds o'er take me in my way, hiding
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: thy bravery in their rotten smoke? Tis not enough that
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: through the cloud thou break to dry the rain on
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: my storm beaten face. For no man well of such
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a salve can speak that heals the wound and cures
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: not the disgrace, nor can thy shame give physic to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: my grief. Though thou repent yet I have still the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: loss the fender sorrow lends but weak relief to him
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that bears the strong offence's cross. Ah, But those tears
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: are pearl which thy love sheds, and they are rich
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and ransom all ill deeds. End of Chapter thirty four,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty five. No more be grieved at that which
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: thou hast done. Roses have thorns, and silver fountains, mud
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, and loathsome
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults, And
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: even I, in this authorizing thy trespass with compare myself corrupting,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: salving thy amiss, excusing thy sins more than thy sins
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: are for to thy sensual fault, I bring in sense
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: thy adverse party is thy advocate, and against myself a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: lawful plea commence such civil war is in my love
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and hate that I an accessory needs must be to
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. End of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: chapter thirty five, Chapter thirty six. Let me confess that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: we two must be twain. Although our undivided loves are one,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: so shall those blots that do with me remain without
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: thy help by me be born alone, and our two loves,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: there is but one respect, though in our lives, a
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: separable spite, which, though it alter not love's sole effect,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: may not evermore acknowledge THEE, lest my bewailed guilt should
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: do THEE shame, nor thou, with public kindness honor me,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: unless thou take that honor from thy name. But do not.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: So I love THEE in such sort as thou, being
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: mine mine is thy good report. End of Chapter thirty six,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty seven. As a decrepit father takes delight to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: see his active child do deeds of youth. So I,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: made lame by fortune's dearest spite, take all my comfort
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of thy worth and truth, for whether beauty, birth, or wealth,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: or wit, or any of these all or all or
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: more entitle in thy parts, do crowned sit, I make
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: my loving grafted to this store. So then I am
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: not lame, poor, nor despised. Whilst that this shadow doth
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: such substance give, that I, in thy abundance, am sufficed,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and by a part of all thy glory live. Look
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: what is best that best I wish in THEE. This
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: wish I have then ten times happy me. End of
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: chapter thirty seven, Chapter thirty eight. How can my muse
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: want subject to invent while thou dost breathe that pour'st
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: into my verse? Thine own sweet argument too excellent for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: every vulgar paper to rehearse. Oh, give thyself the thanks
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: if aught in me worthy perusal, stand against thy sight.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: For who's so dumb that cannot write to THEE. When
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: thou thyself dost give invention, light, be thou the tenth
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: muse ten times more in worth than those old nine
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: which rhymers invocate. And he that calls on THEE let
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: him bring forth eternal numbers to outlive long date. If
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: my slight muse to please these curious days, the pain
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: be mine, but thine shall be the praise. End of
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty eight, Chapter thirty nine. Oh, how thy worth
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: with manners? May I sing? When thou art all the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: better part of me? What can mine own praise to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: mine own self bring? And what ist but mine own?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: When I praise THEE? Even for this? Let us divided live,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and our dear love lose name of single one that
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: by this separation I may give that due to THEE,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: which thou deservest alone o absence, What a torment wouldst
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: thou prove, were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: leave to enter pin the time with thoughts of love,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: which time and thought so sweetly doth deceive. And that
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: thou teachest how to make one twain by praising him
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: here who doth hence remain? End of Chapter thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty. Take all my loves, my love, YEA, take
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: them all? What hast thou then, more than thou hadst before?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: No love, my love, that thou mayest true love call
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: all mine was thine before thou hadst this more than
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: if for my love thou my love receivest. I cannot
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: blame THEE for my love. Thou usest, but yet be
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: blamed if thou thyself deceivest thy wilful taste of what
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: thyself refusest. I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief, although
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: thou steal THEE all my poverty, And yet love knows
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it is a greater grief to bear love's wrong than
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: hates know injury, lascivious grace in whom all ill well
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: shows kill me with spites, Yet we must not be foes.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: End of chapter forty, chapter forty one. Those pretty wrongs
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: that liberty commits when I am sometime absent from thy heart,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: thy beauty, and thy years full well befits, for still
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: temptation follows where thou art gentle, thou art, and therefore
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to be one beauteest thou art therefore to be assailed.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And when a woman woos, what woman's son will sourly
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: leave her till he hath prevail'd ay me. But yet
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: thou mightst my seat forbear, and chide thy beauty and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: thy straying youth who lead THEE in their riot. Even
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: there where thou art forced to break a twofold truth
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee thine, by
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: thy beauty being false to me. End of chapter forty one,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: chapter forty two. That thou hast her, it is not
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: all my grief. And yet it may be said I
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: loved her dearly, that she hath thee is of my
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: wailing chief, a loss in love that touches me more
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: nearly loving offenders. Thus I will excuse ye thou dost
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: love her because thou know'st I love her, and for
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: my sake, even so doth she abuse me, suffering my
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: friend for my sake to approve her? If I lose THEE,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: my loss is my love's gain, and losing her my
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: friend hath found that loss. Both find each other, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I lose both twain and both for my sake. Lay
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: on me this cross. But here's the joy. My friend
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and I are one sweet flattery than she loves but
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: me alone. End of chapter forty two. When most I wink,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: then do mine eyes best see? For all the day
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: they view things unrespected? But when I sleep in dreams
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: they look on THEE and darkly bright, are bright and
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: dark directed. Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: how would thy shadows form form happy show to the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: clear day with thy much clearer light, when two unseeing
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: eyes thy shade shines. So how would I say mine
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: eyes be blessed maid by looking on THEE in the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: living day, when in dead night thy fair and perfect
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: shade Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay. All
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: days are nights to see till I see THEE, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: night's bright days when dreams do show THEE me and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: of chapter forty three, Chapter forty four. If the dull
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: substance of my flesh were thought injurious disay, distance should
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: not stop my way, For then, despite of space, I
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: would be brought from limits far remote where thou dost stay.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: No matter, then, although my foot did stand upon the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: farthest earth removed from THEE. For nimble thought can jump
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: both sea and land as soon as think the place
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: where he would be. But ah thought kills me that
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I am not thought to leap large lengths of miles
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: when thou art gone, but that so much of earth
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and water wrought. I must attend time's leisure with my moan,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: receiving nought by elements so slow but heavy tears badges
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: of either's woe. End of chapter forty four, Chapter forty five.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: The other two slight air and purging fire, are both
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: with THEE wherever I abide, The first my thought, the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: other my desire. These present absent with swift motions slide,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: for when these quick elements are gone, in tender embassy
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: of love to THEE, my life being made of four
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: with two alone, sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: until life's composition be recured by those swift messengers returned
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: from thee, who even but now come back again, assured
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: of thy fair health, recounting it to me. This told
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I joy, But then no longer glad, I send them
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: back again, and straight grows sad. And of Chapter forty five,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Chapter forty six. Thine eye and heart are at a
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: mortal war. How to divide the conquest of thy sight,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: mine eye, my heart. Thy picture's sight would bar my
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: heart mine eye the freedom of that right. My heart
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: doth plead that thou in him dost lie a closet
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: never pierced with crystal eyes. But the defendant doth that
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: plea deny, and says in him thy fair appearance lies.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Decide This title is impaneled a quest of thoughts, all
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: tenets to the heart, and by their verdict is determin'd
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part. As
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Thus mine eyes do is thy outward part, and my
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: heart's right thy inward love of heart. End of chapter
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: forty six, Chapter forty seven. Betwixt mine eye and heart
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: a league is took, and each doth good turns now
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: unto the other. When that mine eye is famish'd for
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: a look, or heart in love with sighs himself doth'
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: smother with my love's picture, than my eye doth feast,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And to the painted banquet bids my heart another time.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Mine eye is my heart's guest, and in his thoughts
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: of love doth share a part. So either by thy
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: picture or my love thy self away art present still
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: with me, For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: And I am still with them, and they with thee,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: or if they sleep, Thy picture in my sight awakes
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: my heart to hearts and eyes delight. And of chapter
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: forty seven Chapter forty eight, How careful was I when
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I took my way each trifle under truest bars, to
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: thrust that to my use it might unuse its stay
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: from hands of falsehood and share wards of trust. But thou,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to whom my jewels trifles are most worthy comfort Now
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: my greatest grief, Thou best of dearest, and mine only
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: care art left the prey of every vulgar thief THEE.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Have I not locked up in any chest save where
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: thou art, not, though I feel thou art within the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: gentle closure of my breast from whence at pleasure thou
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: mayst come in part, and even thence thou wilt be stolen.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I fear for truth proves thievish for a prize, So dear,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: end of chapter forty eight, Chapter forty nine. Against that time,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: if ever that time come when I shall see thee
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: frown on my defects, when as thy love hath cast
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: his utmost sum called to that audit by advised respects,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Against that time, when thou shalt strangely pass and scarcely
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: greet me with that sun thine eye, when love converted
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: from the thing it was, shall reasons find of settled gravity.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Against that time do I ensconce me here within the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: knowledge of my own desert, and this my hand against
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: myself uprear to guard the lawful reasons on thy part
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to leave poor me. Thou hast the strength of laws,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: since why to love I can letch no cause? End
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: of chapter forty nine, Chapter fifty. How heavy do I
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: journey on the way when what I seek my weary
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: travels end? Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: thus far the miles are measured from thy friend, the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: beast that bears me tired with my woe, plods dully
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: on to bear that weight in me, as if by
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: some instinct the wretch did know his rider loved not speed.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Being made from thee, the bloody spur cannot provoke him
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: on that sometimes anger thrusts into his side, which heavily
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: he answers with a groan more sharp to me than
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: spurring to his side. For that same groan doth put
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: this in my mind. My grieflies onward, and my joy behind.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: End of chapter fifty, chapters fifty one through seventy five
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• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Thus can my love excuse the slow offense of my
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: dull bearer? When from thee I speed from where thou art?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Why should I haste me? Thence till I return of posting?
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Is no need? Oh? What excuse will my poor beast
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: then find? When swift extremity can seem but slow? Then
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: should I spur? Though mounted on the wind in winged
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: speed no motion shall I know? Then, can no horse
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: with my desire keep pace. Therefore, desire of perfect love
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: being made shall nay no dull flesh in his fiery race,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: But love for love thus shall excuse my jade. Since
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: from thee going he went wilful slow towards thee, all
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: run and give him leave to go. End of chapter
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: fifty one, Chapter fifty two. So am I as the rich,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: whose blessed key can bring him to his sweet uplocked treasure,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the which he will not every hour survey for blunting
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore our feasts so
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: solemn and so rare, since seldom coming in that long year,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: set like stones of worth, they thinly place it are
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  Speaker 1: or captain jewles in the carcinet. So is the time
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  Speaker 1: that keeps you as my chest, or as the wardrobe,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: which the robe doth hide to make some special instant
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: special blest by new unfolding his imprisoned pride. Blessed are
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: you whose worthiness gives scope being had to triumph, being
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: lacked to hope. End of chapter fifty two, Chapter fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: What is your substance? Whereof are you made that millions
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: of strange shadows on you tend, since every one hath
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  Speaker 1: every one one shade, and you but one can every
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  Speaker 1: shadow lend describe a daunis, and the counterfeit is poorly imitated.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: After you on Helen's cheek, all art of beauty set,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: and you in Grecian tires are painted new speak of
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the spring and foisten of the year. The one doth
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  Speaker 1: shadow of your beauty show, the other as your bounty
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: doth appear, And you in every blessed shape we know,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and all external grace you have some part, but you
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: like none, none you for constant heart. End of chapter
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  Speaker 1: fifty three, Chapter fifty four. Oh, how much more doth
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  Speaker 1: beauty beauteous seem? By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem for
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: blooms have full as deep a die as the perfumed
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  Speaker 1: tincture of the roses, hang on such thorns, and play
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: as wantonly when summer's breath their masked buds discloses. But
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: for their virtue only is their show. They live unwooed
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  Speaker 1: and unrespected fade die to themselves. Sweet roses do not
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: sow of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odors made, And
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, when that shallvade
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: by verse distills your truth. End of chapter fifty four,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty five. Not marble nor the gilded monuments of
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme. But you shall shine
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  Speaker 1: more bright in these contents than unswept stone be smeared
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: broils root out the work of masonry, nor mars his sword,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: nor war's quick fire shall burn the living record of
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: your memory against death and all oblivious enmity shall you
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: pace forth. Your praise shall still find room even in
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the eyes of all posterity that wear this world out
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: to the ending doom. So till the judgment that yourself arise,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you live in this and dwell in lover's eyes. And
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: of chapter fifty five, Chapter fifty six, Sweet love, renew
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: thy force. Be it not said thy edge should blunter
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: be than appetite, which, but to day by feeding, is allayed,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: tomorrow sharpened in his former mind. So love be thou,
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  Speaker 1: although today thou fill thy hungry eyes even till they
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: wink with fullness tomorrow see again, and do not kill
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the spirit of love with a perpetual dulness. Let this
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: sad interim, like the ocean be, which parts the shore,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: where two contracted new come daily to the banks, that,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: when they see return of love, more blessed may be
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the view. Or call it winter, which, being full of care,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: make summers welcome, thrist more wished, more rare. End of
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: chapter fifty six, Chapter fifty seven. Being your slave, what
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: should I do but tend upon the hours and times
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of your desire. I have no precious time at all
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: to spend, nor services to do till you require. Nor
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: dare I chide the world without end hour whilst I
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: sovereign watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: of absence sour when you have bid your servant once ado.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought where you
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  Speaker 1: may be or your affair suppose, But like a sad slave,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: stay and think of naught save where you are. How
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: happy you make those so true? A fool is love
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: that in your will, though you do anything, he thinks
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: no ill end of chapter fifty seven, Chapter fifty eight.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: That God forbid that made me first your slave, I should,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: in thought control your times of pleasure, or at your
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: hand the account of ours to crave, being your vassal,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: bound to stay your leisure. Oh, let me suffer being
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: at your beck, the imprisoned absence of your liberty and
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: patience came to sufferance. Bide each cheek without accusing you
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: of injure. Beware you list. Your charter is so strong
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: that you yourself may privilege your time to what you
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: will to you. It doth belong your self to pardon
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: of self doing crime. I am to wait, though waiting,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: so be hell, nor blame your pleasure, be it ill
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: or well. End of chapter fifty eight, Chapter fifty nine.
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  Speaker 1: If there be nothing new but that which is hath
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: been before, how are our brains beguiled, which, laboring for
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: invention bear amiss the second burthen of a former child. Oh,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: that record could, with a backward look, even of five
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: hundred courses of the sun, show me your image in
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: some antique book, Since mind, at first in character, was done,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: that I might see what the old world could say
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: to this composed wonder of your frame, whether we are mended,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: or whether better they, or whether revolution be the same.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Oh sure I am. The wits of former days to
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: subjects worse have given admiring praise. End of chapter fifty nine,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: so do our minutes hasten to their end, each changing
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: place with that which goes before. In sequent toil, all
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: forwards do contend Nativity. Once in the main of light
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned crooked eclipses against his glory.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Fight and time that gave doth now his gift confound
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, and delves
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: the parallels in beauty's brow, feeds on the rarities of
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: nature's truth and d and nothing stands but for his
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: scythe to mow and yet to times. In hope my
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: verse shall stand praising thy worth despite his cruel hand.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter sixty Chapter sixty one. Is it thy
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: will thy image should keep open my heavy eyelids to
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: the weary night, dost thou desire my slumber should be broken?
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: While shadows like to thee do mock my sight. Is
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: it thy spirit that thou sendest from thee so far
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: from home and to my deeds, to pry to find
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: out shames and idle hours in me? The scope and
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: tenure of thy jealousy. Oh, no, thy love, though much
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: is not so great. It is my love that keeps
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: mine eye awake, Mine own true love, that doth my
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: rest defeat to play the watchmen ever for thy sake,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: for thee watch eye, whilst thou dost wag elsewhere from me,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: far off with others all too near. And of chapter
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: sixty one Chapter sixty two, sin of self love possesseth
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: all mine eye, and all my soul, and all my
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: every part. And for this sin there is no remedy.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: It is so grounded inward in my heart, methinks, no
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: face so gracious is as mine, no shape so true,
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  Speaker 1: no truth of such account. And for my self mine
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: own worth do define as I all other in all
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: worths surmount. But when my glass shows me myself indeed
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: beat it and chopp'd with tant antiquity mine own self love.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Quite contrary, I read self so self loving were iniquity
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: tis thee myself that for myself I praise, painting my
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: age with beauty of thy days, And of chapter sixty two,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty three, against my love shall be as I
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: am now with time's injurious hand, crushed or worn, when
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: ours have drained his blood and filled his brow with
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: lines and wrinkles, when his youthful mourn hath traveled on
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: to Age's steepy night, and all those beauties whereof now
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: He's king are vanishing or vanished out of sight, stealing
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: away the treasure of his spring for such a time,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: do I now fortify against confounding Age's cruel knife, that
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: he shall never cut from memory my sweet love's beauty,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: though my lover's life, his beauty shall in these black
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: lines be seen, and they shall live, and he and
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: them still green. And of chapter sixty three, Chapter sixty four,
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  Speaker 1: what I have seen by times fell hand defaced, the rich,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: proud cost of outworn, buried age, When sometime lofty towers
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: I see down raised in brass, eternal slave to mortal rage.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: When I have seen the hungry ocean gain advantage on
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the kingdom of the shore, and the firm soil wind
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: of the watery main, increasing store with loss and loss
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: with store, when I have seen such interchange of state,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: or state itself confounded to decay. Ruin hath taught me
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: thus to ruminate that time will come and take my
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: but weep to have that which it fears to lose.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: And of Chapter sixty four, Chapter sixty five. Since brass,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, but sad mortality
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: o'er sways their power? How with this rage shall beauty
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: hold the plea whose action is no stronger than a flower? Oh?
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: How shall summer's honey breath hold out against the rackful
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: siege of battering days? When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: nor gates of steel so strong? But time decays? Oh,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: fearful meditation, Where a lack shall Time's best jewel from
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: can forbid? Oh? None, unless this miracle have might that
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: in black ink my love may still shine bright? And
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: of chapter sixty five, Chapter sixty six. Tired with all
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: these for RESTful death, I cry as to behold desert
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: A beggar born and needing nothing, trimmed in jollity and
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: purest faith, unhappily forsworn and gilded, honor shamefully misplaced and
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: maiden virtue rudely strumpeted and right perfection wrongfully disgraced, and
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: strength by limping sway, disabled and art made, tongue tied
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: by authority and folly, doctor like controlling skill and simple
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: truth miscalled, simplicity and captive good attending captain ill tired
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: with all these? From these? Would I be gone? Save
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: that to die? I leave my love alone. End of
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty six, Chapter sixty seven. Ah. Wherefore with infection
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: should he live? And with his presence, grace and piety
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: that sin by him advantage should achieve and lace itself
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: with his society. Why should false painting imitate his cheek
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and still dead seeming of his living hue? Why should
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: poor beauty indirectly seek roses of shadow, since his rose
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: is true? Why should he live? Now? Nature bankrupt is
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: beggard of blood to blush through lively veins, For she
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: hath no exchequer now but his, and proud of many
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: lives upon his gains o him, she stores to show
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: what wealth she had, and days long since before these
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: last so bad end of Chapter sixty seven, Chapter sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn. When
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: beauty lived and died as flowers do now. Before these
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: bastard signs of fair were born or durst in habit
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: on a living brow, Before the golden trusses of the dead,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: the right of sepulchers were shorn away to live a
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: second life on second head. Ere Beauty's dead fleece made
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: another gay in him. Those holy antique hours are seen
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: without all ornament itself and true, making no summer of
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: another's green, robbing no old to dress his beauty knew
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: in him, as for a map doth nature store to
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: show false art what beauty was of your? End of
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty eight, Chapter sixty nine. Those parts of THEE
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: that the world's eye doth view want nothing that the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: thoughts of hearts can mend. All tongues the voice of
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: souls give THEE that do uttering bare truth. Even so
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: as foes commend thy outward, Thus with outward praise is crowned.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: But those same tongues that give THEE so thine own
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: and other accents do this praise confound by seeing farther
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: than thee eye hath shown. They look into the beauty
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: of thy mind, and that in guess they measure by
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: thy deeds. Then churls their thoughts, although their eyes were
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: kind to thy fair flower. Add the rank smell of weeds.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: But why thy odor matcheth not thy show the soil
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: is this that thou dost common grow? And of chapter
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: sixty nine, Chapter seventy, that thou art blamed shall not
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: be thy defect, for slander's mark was ever Yet the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: fair the ornament of beauty is suspect a crow that
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: flies in Heaven's sweetest air. So thou be good slander
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: doth but approve thy worth the greater being wood of
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: time for cank or vice, the sweetest buds doth love.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: And thou present'st a pure, unstained prime. Thou hast passed
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: by the ambush of young days, either not assailed or
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: victor being charged. Yet this thy praise cannot be so
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: thy praise to tie up envy evermore enlarged. If some
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: suspect of ill masked not thy show, then thou alone
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: kingdoms of hearts, should ast oe. And of chapter seventy,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Chapter seventy one, no longer mourn for me. When I
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: am dead. Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: give warning to the world that I am fled from
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: this vile world with vilest worms to dwell. Nay, if
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: For I love you so that I and your sweet
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: thoughts would be forgot. If thinking on me then should
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: make you woe. Oh. If I say you look upon
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: this verse when I perhaps compounded and with clay, do
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: not so much as my poor name rehearse. But let
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: your love, even with my life, decay, lest the wise
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: world should look into your moan and mock you with
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: me after I am gone and of chapter seventy one
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Chapter seventy two, Oh, lest the world should task you
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: to recite what merit lived in me that you should
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: love after my death. Dear love, forget me quite, for
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: you and me can nothing worthy prove unless you would
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: devise some virtuous lie to do more for me than
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: mine own desert, and hang more praise upon deceased eye
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: than the gard truth would willingly impart. Oh lest your
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: true love may seem false in this that you, for
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: love speak well of me untrue my name, be buried
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: where my body is, and live no more to shame
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: nor me nor you. For I am shamed by that
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: which I bring forth, and so should you to love
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: things nothing worth. And of Chapter seventy two, Chapter seventy three,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: that time of year thou mayest in me behold when
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: yellow leaves, or none or few do hang upon those
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: boughs which shake against the cold, bear ruined choires, where
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: late the sweet birds sang, And me thou seest the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: twilight of such day as after unset fateth in the west,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: which by and by black night doth take away Death's
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: second self, that seals up all in rest in me,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: thou seest the glowing of such fire that on the
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: ashes of his youth doth lie as the death bed,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: whereon it must expire, consumed with that which it was
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: nourished by. This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: strong to love that well which thou must leave ere
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: long end of chapter seventy three, Chapter seventy four. But
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: be contented when that fell arrest without all bail shall
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: carry me away. My life hath in this line some
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: interest which form memorial still with THEE shall stay. When
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: thou reviewest this, thou dost review the very part was
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: consecrate to thee. The earth can have but earth, which
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: is his dew. My spirit is thine, the better part
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: of me. So then thou hast but lost the dregs
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: of life, the prey of worms, my body being dead,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: the coward conquest of a wretch's knife to base of
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: thee to be remembered. The worth of that is that
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: which it contains, and that is this, and this with
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: thee remains end of Chapter seventy four, Chapter seventy five.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground. And
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: for the peace of you, I hold such strife as
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: TwixT a miser and his wealth is found, now proud
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: as an enjoyer, and anon doubting the filching age will
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: steal his treasure. Now counting best to be with you alone,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: then better that the world may see my pleasure sometime,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: all full with feasting on your sight, and by and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: by clean starved for a look, possessing or pursuing nobs light,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: save what has had or must from you be took.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Thus do I pine and surfate day by day, or
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: gluttoning on all or all away? End of chapter seventy five.
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  Speaker 1: Chapters seventy six through one hundred of Sonnets of William Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 1: by Sam Stinson, Chapter seventy six. Why is my verse
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: so barren of new pride, so far from variation or
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: quick change? Why with the time do I not glance
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: aside to newfound methods and to compound strange? Why write
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: I still all one ever the same, and keep invention?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: In a note? Did weed that every word doth almost
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: tell my name, showing their birth and where they did proceed? O? No,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: sweet Love, I always write of you, and you and
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: love are still my argument. So all my best is
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: dressing all words new, spending again what is already spent?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: For as the sun is daily new and old, so
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: is my love still telling what is told? End of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Chapter seventy six, Chapter seventy seven. Thy glass will show
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: thee how thy beauties wear thy dial, how thy precious
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: minutes waste, these vacant leaves, thy mind's imprint will bear.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: And of this book this learning. Mayst thou taste the
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: wrinkles which thy glass will truly show of mouthed graves
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: will give THEE memory. Thou, by thy dial shady stealth,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: mayst know time's thievish progress to eternity. Look what thy
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: memory cannot contain. Commit to these waste blanks, and thou
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: shalt find those children nursed deliver'd from thy brain to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: take a new acquaintance of thy mind. These offices, so
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: oft as thou wilt look, shall profit THEE and much
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: enrich thy book. And of chapter seventy seven Chapter seventy eight,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: So oft have I invoked THEE for my muse and
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: found such fair assistance in my verse as every alien
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: pen hath got my use, And under THEE their poesy disperse.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Thine eyes that taught the dumb on high to sing
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: and heavy ignorance aloft to fly, have added feathers to
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: the learned's wing, and given grace a double majesty. Yet,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: be most proud of that which I compile, whose influence
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: is Thine and born of THEE. In others works. Thou
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: dost but mend the style and arts with thy sweet
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: grace's grace. It be but thou art all my art
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: and dost advance as high as learning my rude ignorance.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: End of chapter seventy eight, Chapter seventy nine. Whilst I
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: alone did call upon thy aid, my verse alone had
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: all thy gentle grace. But now my gracious numbers are decayed,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: and my sick muse doth give another place. I grant
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: sweet love. Thy lovely argument deserves the travail of a
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: worthier pen. Yet what of THEE thy poet doth invent?
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: He robs thee of and pays it THEE again he
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: lends THEE virtue, and he stole that word from thy behavior.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Beauty doth he give and found it in thy cheek.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: He can afford no praise to THEE. But what in
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: THEE doth live? Then? Thank him not for that which
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: he doth say, since what he owes THEE thou thyself
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: dost pay. End of chapter seventy nine, Chapter eighty. Oh,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: how I faint when I of you do right? Knowing
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: a better spirit doth use your name, And in the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: praise thereof spends all his might to make me tongue
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: tied speaking of your fame. But since your worth wide
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: as the ocean is, the humble as the proudest sail,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: doth bear my saucy bark inferior far to his, on
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: your broad mane, doth wilfully appear. Your shallowest help will
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: hold me up afloat, whilst he upon your soundless deep
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: doth ride, or being wrecked, I am a worthless boat,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: he of tall building and of goodly pride. Then if
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: he thrive and I be cast away, the worst was
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: this My love was my decay. End of Chapter eighty
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Chapter eighty one. Or I shall live your epitaph to
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: make or you survive when I in earth am rotten.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: From hence your memory death cannot take, although in me
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: each part will be forgotten your name. From hence immortal
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: life shall have. Though I, once gone to all the world,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: When you, entombed in men's eyes shall lie your monument
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: shall be my gentle verse, which eyes not yet created
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: shall o'er read, and tongues to be your being shall rehearse.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: When all the breathers of this world are dead, you
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: shall still live such virtue hath my pen where breath
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: most breathes, even in the mouths of men. Chapter eighty one,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: Chapter eighty two. I grant thou wert not married to
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: my muse, and therefore mayst without attained or look the
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: dedicated words which writers use of their fair subject blessing
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: every book. Thou art as fair in knowledge as in Hugh,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: finding thy worth a limit past my praise, and therefore
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: art enforced to seek anew some fresher stamp of the
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: time bettering days, and do so love. Yet, when they
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: have devised what strained touches rhetoric can lend, thou truly fair,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: wert truly sympathized in true plain words by thy true
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: telling friend, and their gross painting might be better used
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: where cheeks need blood in thee it is abused. End
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: of chapter eighty two, Chapter eighty three. I never saw
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: that you did painting need, and therefore to your fair
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: no painting set I found or thought I found you
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: did exceed that bear and tender of a poet's debt,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: And therefore have I slept in your report that you, yourself,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: being extant, well might show how far a modern quill
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: doth come too short speaking of worth? What worth than
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: you doth grow this silence for my sin you did impute,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: which shall be most my glory, being dumb, for I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: impair not beauty, being mute, when others would give life
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: and bring a tomb. There lives more life in one
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: of your fair eyes than both your poets can in
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: praise divise. End of chapter eighty three, Chapter eighty four.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Who is it that says most? Which can say more
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: then this rich praise? That you alone are you? And
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: whose confine immured is the store which should example where
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: your equal grew lean penury within that pen doth dwell
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: that to his subject lends not some small glory. But
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: he that writes of you, if he can tell that
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: you are you, so dignifies his story. Let him but
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: copy what in you is writ not making worse what
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: nature made so clear. And such a counterpart shall fame
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: his wit, making his style admired everywhere. You to your
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: beauteous blessings at a curse, being fond on praise, which
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: makes your praises worse. End of chapter eighty four, Chapter
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: eighty five. My tongue tied muse and manners holds her still,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: while comments of your praise, richly compiled, reserve their character
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: with golden quill and precious phrase. By all the muses filled,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: I think good thoughts, whilst other write good words, and
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: like unlettered clerk, still cry amen to every hymn that
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: able spirit affords in polished form of well refined pen.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: Hearing you praised, I say, tis true, tis true, And
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: to the most of praise adds something more. But that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: is in my thought. Whose love to you, though words
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: come hindmost holds his rank before than others, for the
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: breath of words, respect me for my dumb thoughts, speaking
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: in effect end of chapter eighty five Chapter eighty six.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: bound for the prize of all too precious you, that
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, making their
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: by spirits, taught to write above a mortal pitch that
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: struck me dead? No neither he nor his compeers by
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: night giving him aid my verse astonished he nor that
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: affable familiar ghost which knightly gulls him with intelligence, as
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: victors of my silence cannot boast. I was not sick
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: of any fear from thence, But when your countenance filled
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: up his line then lacked eye matter that enfeebled mine.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: End of chapter eighty six, Chapter eighty seven. Well, thou
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: art too dear for my possessing, and like enough thou
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: knowest thy estimate. The charter of thy worth gives THEE
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: releasing My bonds in THEE are all determinate. For how
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: do I hold THEE? But by thy granting, and for
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: back again is swerving thyself. Thou gavest thy own worth
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: than not knowing, or me to whom thou gavest it
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: else mistaking. So thy great gift, upon misprision growing comes
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: home again on better judgment making. Thus have I had
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: THEE as a dream, doth flatter and sleep a king,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: but waking no such matter? End of chapter eighty seven,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: Chapter eighty eight. When thou shalt be disposed to set
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: me light and place my merit in the eye of
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: scorn upon thy side against myself, I'll fight and prove
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: THEE virtuous, though thou art forsworn with mine own weakness.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: Being best acquainted upon thy part, I can set down
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: a story a faulse concealed, wherein I am attained that Thou,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: in losing me, shalt win much glory, And I by
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: this will be a gainer too, for bending all my
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: loving thoughts on THEE. The injuries that to myself I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: do doing THEE vantage double vantage me. Such is my
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: love to THEE, I so belong that for thy right
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: myself will bear all wrong. End of chapter eighty eight,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: Chapter eighty nine. Say that thou didst forsake me for
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: some fault, and I will comment upon that offense, speak
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: of my lameness, and I straight will halt against thy reasons,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: making no defense. Thou canst not love disgrace me half
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: so ill to set a form upon desired change as
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: all my self disgrace. Knowing thy will, I will acquaintance
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: strangle and look strange, be absent from thy walks, and
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: in my tongue, thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong, and
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: haply of our old acquaintance. Tell for THEE against myself
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: all thou debate, for I must ne'er love him whom
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: thou dost hate. End of chapter eighty nine, Chapter ninety.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever now now,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: while the world has bent my deeds to cross join
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: with the spite of fortune, make me bow, and do
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: not drop in for an after loss. Ah, Do not,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: when my heart hath escaped this sorrow come in the
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: rearward of a conquered woe. Give not a windy night,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: a rainy morrow, toler out a purposed overthrow. If thou
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: wilt leave me, do not leave me last when other
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: petty griefs have done their spite. But in the onset come,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: so shall I taste at first the very worst of fortunes.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Might and other strains of woe, which now seem woe
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: compared with loss of thee will not seem so. End
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: of chapter ninety, Chapter ninety one. Some glory in their birth,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: some in their skill, some in their wealth, some in
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: their bodies, force, some in their garments, though new fangled ill,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure wherein it finds
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: a joy above the rest. But these particulars are not
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: my measure. All these I better in one general best.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: Thy love is better than high birth, to me, richer
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: than wealth, prouder than garments, costs of more delight than
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: hawks and horses be and having thee of all men's pride.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: I boast wretched in this alone, that thou mayest take
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: all this away, and me most wretched. Make end of
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: chapter ninety one, Chapter ninety two. But do thy worst
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: to steel thyself away for term of life Thou art
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: assured mine and life no longer than thy love will stay,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: for it depends upon that love of thine. Then need
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: I not to fear the worst of wrongs, when in
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: the least of them my life hath end I see
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: a better state to me belongs than that which on
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: thy humor doth depend. Thou canst not vex me with
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: inconstant mind, since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: Oh what a happy title do I find? Happy to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: have thy love, happy to die? But what so blessed
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: fare that fears no blot? Thou mayest be false in?
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: And yet I know it not. End of chapter ninety two,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety three. So shall I live, supposing thou art
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: true like a deceived husband. So love's face may still
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: seem love to me, though altered new thy looks with
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: me thy heart in other place, For there can live
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: no hatred in thine eye. Therefore in that I cannot
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: know thy change and many's looks. The false heart's history
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkle strange. But Heaven,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: in thy creation, did decree that in thy face, sweet
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: love should ever dwell, whatever thy thoughts or thy heart's
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: workings be, thy looks. Should nothing thence but sweetness, Tell
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: how like Eve's apple, doth thy beauty grow? If thy
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: sweet virtue answer not thy show end of Chapter ninety three,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety four. They that have power to hurt and
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: will do none that do not do the thing they
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: most do show who moving others are themselves as stone, unmoved, cold,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: and to temptations slow. They rightly do inherit Heaven's graces
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: and husband Nature's riches from expense. They are the lords
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: and owners of their faces others, but stewards of their excellence.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, though to
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: it self it only live and die. But if that
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: flower with base infection meet the basest weed outbraves his dignity,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: For sweetest things turn sourst by their deeds. Lilies that
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: fester smell far worse than weeds. End of chapter ninety four,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety five. How sweet and lovely dost thou make
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: the shame which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: doth spot the beauty of thy budding name. Oh, in
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: what sweets dost thou Thy sins enclose that tongue that
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: tells the story of thy days. Making lascivious comments on
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: thy sport cannot dispraise, But in a kind of praise,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: naming thy name blesses an ill report. Oh would a
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: mansion have those vices got which for their habitation chose
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: out thee where beauty's veil doth cover every blot, and
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: all things turns to fair that eyes can see. Take heed,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: dear heart, of this large privilege. The hardest knife ill
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: used doth lose his edge. And of chapter ninety five,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety six. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport both
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: grace and false are loved of more and less Thou
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: make'st false graces that to THEE resort as on the
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: finger of a throned queen, the basest jewel will be
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: well esteemed. So are those errors that in THEE are
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: seen to truths translated, and for true things deemed. How
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: many lambs might the stern wolf betray, if like a
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: lamb he could his looks translate? How many gazers mightst
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: thou lead away, if thou wouldst use the strength of
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: all thy state. But do not so? I love THEE
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: in such sort as thou being mine mine is thy
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: good report. End of chapter ninety six, Chapter ninety seven.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: How like a winter hath my absence been from thee
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of the fleeting year? What freezings have I felt?
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: What dark days seen? What old December's bareness everywhere? And
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: yet this time removed was Summer's time, the teeming autumn,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: like widowed wombs after their lord's decease. Yet this abundant
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: issue seemed to me but hope of orphans and unfathered
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: fruit for Summer and his pleasures wait on thee and
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: thou away. The very birds are mute, or if they sing,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: tis with so dull a cheer that leaves look pale.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: Dreading the winter's near end of chapter ninety seven, Chapter
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: ninety eight from you, have I been absent in the spring,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: when proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, hath
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: put a spirit of youth in everything that heavy saturn
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: nor the sweet smell of different flowers in odor and
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: in hue, could make me any summer's story tell, or
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: from their proud lap pluck them where they grew. Nor
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: did I wonder at the lilies white, nor praise the
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: deep vermilion in the rose. They were but sweet, but
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: figures of delight drawn after you, you pattern of all
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: those yet seemed did winter still and you away? As
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: with your shadow, I with these did play, and of
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: chapter ninety eight, Chapter ninety nine, the forward violet. Thus
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: did I chide, sweet thief? Whence didst thou steal thy
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: sweet that smells, if not from my love's breath the
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: purple pride which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: in my love's veins. Thou hast too grossly dyed the
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: lily I condemned for thy hand and buds of Marjoram
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: had stolen thy hair. The roses fearfully on thorns, did
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: stand one blushing shame, another white despair. A third nor
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: red nor white, had stolen of both, and to his
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: robbery had annexed thy breath. But for his theft and
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: pride of all his growth, a vengeful canker eat him
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: could see, but sweet or color it hath stolen from
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: thee end of chapter ninety nine, Chapter one hundred, where
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: art thou muse that thou forget'st so long to speak
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: of that which gives thee all thy might spend'st Thou
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: thy fury on some worthless song, darkening thy power to
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: lend base subjects light, return, forgetful, muse and straight redeem
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: in gentle numbers. Time so idly spent sing to thee
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: ear that doth thy lays esteem and gives thy pen
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: both skill and argument. Rise, resty, muse my love's sweet face.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: Survey if time hath any wrinkle graven there, if any
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: be a satire to decay and make time spoils, despise
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: it everywhere. Give my love fame faster than time wastes life,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: So thou preventest his scythe and crooked knife. End of
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: chapter one hundred, Chapters one hundred and one through one
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five of William Shakespeare. This is a
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• 1:28:15
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• 1:28:18
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• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: one hundred and one. O truant, Muse what shall be
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: thy amends for thy neglect of truth and beauty? Died?
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Both truth and beauty on my love depends, So dost
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: thou too, and therein dignified make answer. Muse, wilt thou
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: not haply say? Truth needs no color with his color fixed,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: beauty no pencil. Beauty's truth to lay. But best is
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: best if never intermixed. Because he needs no praise. Wilt
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: thou be dumb? Excuse not silence, so fort lies in
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: thee to make him much outlive a gilded tomb, and
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: to be praised of ages yet to be then do
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: thy office, muse, I teach thee how to make him
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: seem long. Hence, as he shows now end of chapter
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: one hundred and one Chapter one hundred and two, my
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: love is strengthened, though more weakened, seeming I love not less,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: though less the show appear that love is merchandised, whose
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  Speaker 1: rich esteeming the owner's tongue doth published everywhere our love
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  Speaker 1: was new, and then but in the spring, when I
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  Speaker 1: was wont to greet it with my lays, as Philomel
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  Speaker 1: in summer's front doth sing and stops her pipe in
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  Speaker 1: growth of riper days. Not that the summer is less
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  Speaker 1: pleasant now than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
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  Speaker 1: but that wild music burthens every beaux, and sweets grown
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  Speaker 1: common lose their dear delight. Therefore, like her, I sometime
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  Speaker 1: hold my tongue, because I would not dull you with
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  Speaker 1: my song. And of chapter one hundred and two Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and three, A lack what poverty my muse
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  Speaker 1: brings forth that having such a scope to show her pride,
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  Speaker 1: the argument all bear is of more worth than when
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  Speaker 1: it hath my added praise. Beside, oh, blame me not
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  Speaker 1: if I no more can write. Look in your glass,
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  Speaker 1: and there appears a face that overgoes my blunt invention,
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  Speaker 1: quite dulling my lines and doing me disgrace, were it
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  Speaker 1: not sinful then striving to mend to mar the subject
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  Speaker 1: that before was well for to no other past. My
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  Speaker 1: verses tend than of your graces and your gifts to tell,
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  Speaker 1: and more much more than in my verse can sit.
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  Speaker 1: Your own glass shows you when you look in it,
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  Speaker 1: and of chapter one hundred three, Chapter one hundred and four.
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  Speaker 1: To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for
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  Speaker 1: as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such
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  Speaker 1: seems your beauty still three winters cold have from the
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  Speaker 1: forest shook, three summer's pride, three beauteous springs to yellow
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  Speaker 1: autumn turned and process of the seasons? Have I seen
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  Speaker 1: three April perfumes in three hot junes burned since first
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  Speaker 1: I saw you, fresh, which yet are green? Ah? Yet
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  Speaker 1: doth beauty like a dial hand steal from his figure,
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  Speaker 1: and no pace perceiv'd. So your sweet hue, which methinks
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  Speaker 1: still doth stand, hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived,
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  Speaker 1: for fear of which hear this, thou age unbred ere
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  Speaker 1: you were born was Beauty's summer dead end of chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and four, Chapter one hundred and five. Let
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  Speaker 1: not my love be called idolatry, nor my beloved as
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  Speaker 1: an idle show, since all alike my songs and praises
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  Speaker 1: be to one of one. Still such and ever so
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  Speaker 1: kind is my love to day tomorrow, kind, still constant
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  Speaker 1: in a wondrous excellence. Therefore my verse to constancy confined
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  Speaker 1: one thing expressing leaves out difference. Fair kind and true
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  Speaker 1: is all my argument, fair kind and true, varying to
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  Speaker 1: other words. And in this change is my invention spent
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  Speaker 1: three themes and one which wondrous scope affords. Fair kind
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  Speaker 1: and true have often lived alone, which three till now
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  Speaker 1: never kept seat. In one end of chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and five Chapter one hundred and six, when in the
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  Speaker 1: Chronicle of Wasted Time, I see descriptions of the fairest
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  Speaker 1: whites and beauty making beautiful old rhyme in praise of
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  Speaker 1: ladies dead and lovely nights, than in the blazon of
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  Speaker 1: sweet Beauty's best of hand, afoot of lip, of eye
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  Speaker 1: of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed
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  Speaker 1: even such a beauty as you master now. So all
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  Speaker 1: their praises are but prophecies of this our time, all
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  Speaker 1: you prefiguring. And for they looked, but with divining eyes
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  Speaker 1: they had not skill enough. You're worth to sing, for
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  Speaker 1: we which now behold these present days, have eyes to wonder,
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  Speaker 1: but lack tongues to praise. End of Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six. Chapter one hundred and seven. Not mine own fears,
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  Speaker 1: nor the prophetic soul of the wide world dreaming on
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  Speaker 1: things to can yet the lease of my true love control.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose it is forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal
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  Speaker 1: moon hath her eclipse endured, and the sad augurs mock
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  Speaker 1: their own presage and certainties now crown themselves assured, and
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops
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  Speaker 1: of this most balmy time, my love looks fresh, and
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  Speaker 1: death to me subscribes, since spite of him, I'll live
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  Speaker 1: in this poor rhyme while he insults or dull and
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  Speaker 1: speechless tribes, And thou in this shalt find thy monument
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  Speaker 1: When tyrants, crests, and tombs of brass are spent. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one hundred and seven. Chapter one hundred and eight.
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  Speaker 1: What's in the brain that ink may character which hath
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  Speaker 1: not figure to thee my true spirit? What's new to speak?
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  Speaker 1: What now to read? That may express my love? Or
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  Speaker 1: thy dear Merit nothing, sweet boy, But yet like prayers divine,
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  Speaker 1: I must each day say or the very same, counting
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  Speaker 1: no old thing old thou mine eye thine, even as
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  Speaker 1: when first I hallowed thy fair name, So that eternal love,
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  Speaker 1: in love's fresh case, weighs not the dust and injury
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  Speaker 1: of age, nor gives to necessary wrinkle's place, but makes
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  Speaker 1: antiquity for I his page, finding the first conceit of
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  Speaker 1: love there bread, where time and outward form would show
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  Speaker 1: it dead. End of Chapter one hundred and eight, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred nine. Oh, never say that I was false
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  Speaker 1: of heart, though absence seemed my flame to qualify as
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  Speaker 1: easy might I from myself depart, as from my soul,
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  Speaker 1: which in thy breast doth lie, that is my home
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  Speaker 1: of love. If I have reigned like him that travels,
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  Speaker 1: I return again just to the time, not with the
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  Speaker 1: time exchanged, so that myself bring water for my stain.
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  Speaker 1: Never believe, though in my nature reigned all frailties that
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  Speaker 1: besiege all kinds of blood, that it could so preposterously
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  Speaker 1: be stained to leave for nothing all thy sum of
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  Speaker 1: good for nothing this wide universe. I call save thou
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  Speaker 1: my rose, and it thou art my all. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and nine, Chapter one hundred and ten.
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  Speaker 1: Alas tis true, I have gone here and there and
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  Speaker 1: made myself a motley to the view, gored mine own
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  Speaker 1: thoughts sole cheap. What is most dear made old offenses
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: of affections new? Most true? It is that I have
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  Speaker 1: looked on truth askance in strangely, but by all above
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: these blenches gave my heart another youth, and worse essays
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  Speaker 1: proved thee my best of love. Now all is done,
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  Speaker 1: save what shall have no end mine appetite. I never
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  Speaker 1: more will grind on newer proof to try an older friend,
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  Speaker 1: a god in love to whom I am confined. Then
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  Speaker 1: give me welcome next my heaven, the best even to
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  Speaker 1: thy pure and most most loving breast. And of chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten, Chapter one hundred and eleven. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: for my sake, do you, with fortune chide the guilty
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  Speaker 1: goddess of my harmful deeds that did not better for
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  Speaker 1: my life provide than public means which public manners breeds.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, and
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: almost thence my nature is subdued to what it works
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: in like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish
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  Speaker 1: I were renewed, whilst like a willing patient, I will
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: drink potions of easel against my strong infection. No bitterness
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  Speaker 1: that I will bitter think, nor double penance to correct correction.
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  Speaker 1: Pity me, then, dear friend, and I assure ye even
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  Speaker 1: that your pity is enough to cure me. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and eleven. Chapter one hundred and twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Your love and pity doth the impression fill which a
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow? For what care I
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: who calls me well or ill? So you or green,
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  Speaker 1: my bad? My good? Allow? You are my all the world,
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  Speaker 1: and I must strive to know my shames and praises
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  Speaker 1: from your tongue. None else to me, nor I to
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  Speaker 1: none alive that my stealed sense or changes right or wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and so profound abysm I throw all care of others.
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  Speaker 1: Voices that my adder sense to critic and to flattery
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: stopped are mark how with my neglect, I do dispense
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: you are so strongly in my purpose bred that all
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  Speaker 1: the world besides methinks are dead. And of Chapter one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twelve, Chapter one hundred and thirteen. Since I
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  Speaker 1: left you, mine eye is in my mind, and that
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  Speaker 1: which governs me to go about doth part his function,
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  Speaker 1: and is partly blind, seems seeing, but effectually is out.
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  Speaker 1: For it no form delivers to the heart of bird
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  Speaker 1: a flower or shape, which it doth latch of his
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  Speaker 1: quick objects. Hath the mind no part nor his own
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  Speaker 1: vision holds what it doth catch. For if it see
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  Speaker 1: the roots or gentlest sight, the most sweet favor or
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: deformsed creature, the mountain or the sea, the day or night,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: the crow or dove, it shapes them to your feature,
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  Speaker 1: incapable of more replete with you my most true mind,
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  Speaker 1: thus maketh mine untrue end of chapter one hundred and thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and fourteen. Or whether doth my mind,
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  Speaker 1: being crowned with you, drink up the monarch's plague this flattery?
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: Or whether shall I say mine eye saith true, and
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: that your love taught it this alchemy to make of
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: monsters and things indigest such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: creating every bad a perfect best, as fast as objects
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: to his beams assemble. Oh tis the first tis flattery
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: in my seeing, and my great mind most kingly drinks
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: it up. Mine eye well knows what with his gust
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: is green. And to his palate doth prepare the cup
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  Speaker 1: if it be poisoned. Tis the lesser sin than mine
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  Speaker 1: eyes loves it, and doth first begin end of chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen. Chapter one hundred and fifteen. Those
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: lines that I before have writ do lie, even those
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  Speaker 1: that said I could not love you dearer. Yet then
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: my judgment knew no reason why my most full flame
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: should afterwards burn clearer. But reckoning time, whose millioned accidents
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: creep in TwixT vows and change decrees of kings, tan
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: the course of altering things. Alas why, fearing of time's tyranny,
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: might I not then say now I love you best
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: when I was certain or uncertainty crowning the present doubting
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: of the rest love is a babe, Then might I
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: not say so to give full growth to that which
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: still doth grow. End of chapter one hundred and fifty,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and sixteen. Let me not to the
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  Speaker 1: marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love
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  Speaker 1: which alters when it alteration, finds or bends with the
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: remover to remove. Oh. No, it is an ever fixed
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  Speaker 1: mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. It
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: is the star to every wandering bark, whose words unknown.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: Although his height be taken, Love's not time's fool. Though
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickles compass come.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: bears it out even to the edge of doom. If
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: this be error, and upon me proved I never writ
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: nor no man ever loved and of chapter one hundred
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: and sixteen Chapter one hundred and seventeen, accuse me thus
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  Speaker 1: that I have scant it all. Wherein I should your
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: great deserts repay for God upon your dearest love to
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: call where two all bonds do tie me day by day,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: that I have frequent been with unknown minds and given
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: to time your own dear purchased right, that I have
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: hoisted sail to all the winds which should transport me
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: farthest from your sight. Book both my wilfulness and errors
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: down and on just proof, surmise, accumulate, bring me within
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: the level of your frown, but shoot not at me
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: in your wakened hate. Since my appeal says, I did
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: strive to prove the constancy and virtue of your love.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter one hundred and seventeen. Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighteen. Like as to make our appetite more keen
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: with eager compounds, we are palliate, urge as to prevent
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: our malleyes unseen we sicken to shun sickness when we purge,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: even so, being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness to
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: bitter sauces, did I frame my feeding and sick of
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: welfare found a kind of meatness to be diseased, ere
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: that there was true needing. Thus policy and love to
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: anticipate the ills that were not grew to false assured,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: and brought to medicine a healthful state which rank of
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: goodness would by ill be cured. But thence I learn
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: and find the lesson true drugs poison him that so
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: fell sick of you. End of Chapter one hundred and eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and nineteen. What portions have I drunk
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: of siren tears distilled from Limbeck's foul as hell within,
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears, still losing
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: when I saw myself to win? What wretched air rors
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: hath my heart committed whilst it hath thought it self
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: so blessed? Never how have mine eyes, out of their
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: spheres been fitted in the distraction of this madding fever?
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: Oh benefit of ill? Now I find true that better
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: is by evil, still made better and ruined. Love. When
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: it is built, a new grows fairer than at first,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: more strong, far greater. So I return rebuked to my content,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: and gained by ills thrice more than I have spent.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one hundred nineteen, Chapter one hundred and twenty.
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  Speaker 1: That you were once unkind befriends me now And for
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  Speaker 1: that sorrow which I then did feel needs, must I
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: under my transgression bow unless my nerves were brass or
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: hammered steel. For if you were by my unkindness shaken
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: as I by yours, you have passed a hell of time,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: and I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken to weigh
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: how once I suffered in your crime, Oh, that our
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: knight of woe might have remember'd my deepest sense, how
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: hard true sorrow hits as soon to you as you
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: to me. Then tendered the humble salve which wounded bosoms fits.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: But that your trespass now becomes a fee mine ransom's yours,
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: and yours must ransom me. And if chapter one hundred
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: and twenty Chapter one hundred and twenty one, tis better
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: to be vile than vile esteemed, when not to be
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: receives reproach of being, and the just pleasure lost, which
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: is so deemed not by our feeling but by others seeing.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: For why should others false adulterate eyes give salutation to
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: my sportive blood, or on my frailties? Why they are
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: frailer spies, which in their wills count bad what I
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: think good? No, I am that I am, and they
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: that level at my abuses reckon up their own. I
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: may be straight, though they themselves be bevil by their
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: rank thoughts. My deeds must not be shown unless this
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: general evil they maintain, All men are bad, and in
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: their badness reign. End of chapter one hundred and twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and twenty two, Thy gift. Thy tables
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: are within my brain, full charactered with lasting memory, which
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  Speaker 1: shall above that idle rank, remain beyond all date, even
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: to eternity, or at the least so long as brain
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: and heart have faculty by nature to subsist, till each
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: to raised oblivion yield his part of THEE. Thy record
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: never can be missed that retention could not so much hold,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. Therefore
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: to give them from me was I bold to trust
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: those tables that receive THEE more to keep an adjunct
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: to remember THEE were to import forgetfulness in me? And
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: of Chapter one hundred and twenty two, Chapter one hundred
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: and twenty three. No time, thou shalt not boast that
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: I do change. Thy pyramids, built up with newer might,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: to me are nothing novel, nothing strange. They are but
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: therefore we admire what thou dost foist upon us that
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: is old, and rather make them born to our desire,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: than think that we before have heard them told thy
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: registers in THEE, I both defy, not wondering at the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: present nor the past, for thy records and what we
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: see doth lie made more or less by thy continual haste.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: This I do vow, and this shall ever be. I
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: will be true despite thy scythe and thee And of
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and twenty three, Chapter one hundred and
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: twenty four. If my dear love were but the child
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: of state, it might, for fortune's bastard be unfathered as
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: subject to time's love or to times hate weeds among weeds,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: or flowers with flowers gathered. No, it was builded far
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: from accident. It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: under the blow of thrall discontent. Where to the inviting
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: time our fashion calls it fears not policy that heretic,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: which works on leases of short numbered hours, but all
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: alone stands hugely politic, that it grows with heat, nor
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: rounds with showers. To this I witness call the fools
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: of time, which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: And of Chapter one hundred and twenty four, Chapter one
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five. What it ought to me I
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: bore the canopy with my extern the outward honoring or
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: laid great bases for eternity, which proves more short than
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: waste or ruining. Have I not seen dwellers on form
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: and favor lose all and more by paying too much
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: rent for compound sweet foregoing simple savor, pitiful thrivers in
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: their gazing spent. No, let me be obsequious in thy
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: heart and take thou my oblation, poor but free, which
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: is not mixed with seconds, knows no art but mutual
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: render only me for thee. Hence thou suborned in former
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: a true soul when most impeached, stands least in thy control.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: And of chapter one hundred and twenty five chapters one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six through one hundred and fifty four
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  Speaker 1: of Sonnets of William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six. O Thou, my lovely boy, who
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  Speaker 1: in thy power dost hold Time's fickle glass, his fickle hour,
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  Speaker 1: who hast by waning grown, and therein showst thy lover's withering.
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  Speaker 1: As thy sweet self growest, if nature sovereign mistress over rack,
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  Speaker 1: as thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back. She
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  Speaker 1: keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill may time
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  Speaker 1: disgrace and wretched minutes kill. Yet fear her o thou
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  Speaker 1: minion of her pleasure, she may detain, but not still
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  Speaker 1: keep her treasure. Her audit, though delayed, answered, must be,
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  Speaker 1: and her quietness is to render thee and of Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six Chapter one hundred and twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: In the old age, black was not counted fair, or
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  Speaker 1: if it were, it bore not beauty's name. But now
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  Speaker 1: is black beauty's successive air, and beauty slandered with a
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  Speaker 1: bastard shame, for since each hand hath put on nature's power.
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  Speaker 1: Fearing the foul with art's false borrowed face, sweet beauty
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  Speaker 1: hath no name, no holy bower, but is profaned, if
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  Speaker 1: not lives in disgrace. Therefore, my mistress eyes are raven black,
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  Speaker 1: her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem at such
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  Speaker 1: who not born fair, No beauty lack slandering creation with
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  Speaker 1: a false esteem. Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
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  Speaker 1: that every tongue says beauty should look so And of
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  Speaker 1: chapter one hundred and twenty seven, Chapter one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight, How oft, when thou my music music playest
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  Speaker 1: upon that blessed wood, whose motion sounds with thy sweet fingers,
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  Speaker 1: when thou gently swayest the wiry conquered that mine ear confounds.
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  Speaker 1: Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap to kiss
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  Speaker 1: the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips,
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  Speaker 1: which should that harvest, reap at the wood's boldness by
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  Speaker 1: thee blushing, stand to be so tickled they would change
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  Speaker 1: their state and situation with those dancing chips, or whom
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  Speaker 1: thy fingers walk with gentle gait, making dead wood more
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  Speaker 1: blessed than living lips. Since saucy jacks so happy are
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  Speaker 1: in this, give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss.
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  Speaker 1: And of Chapter one hundred and twenty eight, Chapter one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine. The expensive spirit in a waste
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  Speaker 1: of shame is lust in action until action, lust is perjured, murderous, bloody,
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  Speaker 1: full of blame, savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed no sooner but despised straight past reason hunted, and
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  Speaker 1: no sooner had past reason hated as a swallowed bait
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  Speaker 1: on purpose, laid to make the taker mad, mad in
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  Speaker 1: pursuit and in possession. So had having and in quest
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  Speaker 1: to have extreme a bliss in proof improved a very
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  Speaker 1: woe before a joy proposed behind a dream. All this
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  Speaker 1: the world well knows. Yet none knows well to shun
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  Speaker 1: the heaven that leads men to this hell. And of
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  Speaker 1: chapter one hundred and twenty nine, Chapter one hundred and thirty.
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  Speaker 1: My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is
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  Speaker 1: far more red than her lips red. If snow be white,
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  Speaker 1: why then her breasts are done? If hairs be wires,
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  Speaker 1: black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses
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  Speaker 1: damasked red and white, but no such roses see I
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  Speaker 1: in her cheeks and in some perfumes. Is there more
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  Speaker 1: delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks?
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  Speaker 1: I love to hear her speak, Yet well I know
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  Speaker 1: that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant
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  Speaker 1: I never saw a goddess go my mistress when she
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  Speaker 1: walks treads on the ground. And yet by Heaven, I
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  Speaker 1: think my love as rare as any sheep alied with
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  Speaker 1: false Compare end of chapter one hundred thirty Chapter one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thirty one, Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou
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  Speaker 1: art as those whose beauties proudly make them cruel. For
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  Speaker 1: well thou knowest to my dear doting heart, thou art
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  Speaker 1: the fairest and most precious jewel. Yet in good faith
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  Speaker 1: some say that thee behold thy face hath not the
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  Speaker 1: power to make love grown to say, they err, I
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  Speaker 1: dare not be so bold, although I swear it to
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  Speaker 1: myself alone, and to be sure that is not false,
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  Speaker 1: I swear a thousand groans. But thinking on thy face
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  Speaker 1: one on another's neck, do witness bear Thy black is
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  Speaker 1: fairest in my judgment's place. In nothing art thou black
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  Speaker 1: save in thy deeds? And thence this slander, as I
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  Speaker 1: think proceeds. And of Chapter one hundred and thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and thirty two. Thine eyes I love,
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  Speaker 1: and they, as pitying me, knowing thy heart torment me
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  Speaker 1: with disdain, have put on black, and loving mourners be
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  Speaker 1: looking with pretty ruth upon my pain, And truly not
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  Speaker 1: the morning sun of heaven better becomes the gray cheeks
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  Speaker 1: of the east, nor that full star that ushers in
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  Speaker 1: the even doth have that glory to the somber west,
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  Speaker 1: as those two morning eyes become thy face. Oh, let
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  Speaker 1: it then as well beseem thy heart to mourn for me,
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  Speaker 1: since mourning doth thee grace and suit thy pity like
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  Speaker 1: in every part, Then will I swear beauty herself is black,
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  Speaker 1: and all they foul that thy complexion lack end of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and thirty two, Chapter one hundred and thirty.
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  Speaker 1: But shrew that heart that makes my heart to groan,
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  Speaker 1: for that deep wound it gives. My friend in me
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  Speaker 1: is not enough to torture me alone, but slave to slavery.
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  Speaker 1: My sweetest friend must be me from myself. Thy cruel
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  Speaker 1: eye hath taken, and my next self Thou harder hast
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  Speaker 1: engrossed of him myself and thee I am forsaken a
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  Speaker 1: torment thrice threefold, thus to be crossed. Prison my heart
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  Speaker 1: in thy steel bosomed ward. But then my friend's heart,
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  Speaker 1: Let my poor heart beil. Whoever keeps me, let my
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  Speaker 1: heart be his guard. Thou canst not then use rigor
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  Speaker 1: in my gall And yet thou wilt, for I, being
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  Speaker 1: pent in THEE perforce, am thine and all that is
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  Speaker 1: in me. End of Chapter one hundred and thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and thirty four. So now I have
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  Speaker 1: confessed that he is thine, and I myself am mortgaged
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  Speaker 1: to thy will myself I'll forfeit so that other mind
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  Speaker 1: thou wilt restore to be my comfort still, But thou
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  Speaker 1: wilt not, nor he will not be free. For thou
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  Speaker 1: art covetous, and he is kind, he learned, but surety
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  Speaker 1: like to write for me under that bond that him
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  Speaker 1: as fast doth bind the statute of thy beauty. Thou
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  Speaker 1: wilt take thou usurer that put'st forth all to use,
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  Speaker 1: and sue a friend came debtor for my sake. So
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  Speaker 1: him I lose through my unkind abuse him. Have I lost?
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast both him and me. He pays the whole,
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  Speaker 1: And yet am I not free? End of Chapter one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four. Chapter one hundred and thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever hath her wish, Thou hast thy will and will
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  Speaker 1: to boot and will and over plus more than enough
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  Speaker 1: am I that vex THEE still to thy sweet will,
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  Speaker 1: making addition. Thus wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
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  Speaker 1: not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine shall
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  Speaker 1: will in others seem right gracious, And in my will
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  Speaker 1: no fair acceptance shine the sea all water yet receives,
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  Speaker 1: reigns still and in abundance addeth to his store. So thou,
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  Speaker 1: being rich in will, add to thy will one will
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  Speaker 1: of mine to make thy large will more. Let no unkind,
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  Speaker 1: no fair beseechers kill think all but one and me
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  Speaker 1: in that one will. And of chapter one hundred thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred thirty six, if thy soul check THEE
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  Speaker 1: that I come so near, swear to thy blind soul
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  Speaker 1: that I was thy will and will thy soul knows
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  Speaker 1: is admitted there Thus far for love, my love suit
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  Speaker 1: sweet fulfill will, will fulfill the treasure of thy love.
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  Speaker 1: I fill it full with wills and my will one
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  Speaker 1: in things of great receipt with ease we prove among
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  Speaker 1: a number one is reckoned none. Then in the number
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  Speaker 1: let me pass untold. Though in thy store's account I
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  Speaker 1: one must be for nothing. Hold me, so it please THEE,
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  Speaker 1: hold that nothing me a something sweet to THEE, make
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  Speaker 1: but my name thy love, and love that still, And
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  Speaker 1: then thou lovest me, for my name is will. And
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one hundred and thirty six, Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty seven, Thou blind fool love, What dost thou
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  Speaker 1: to mine eyes? That they behold and see not what
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  Speaker 1: they see? They know what beauty is, see where it lies?
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  Speaker 1: Yet what the best is, take the worst to be.
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  Speaker 1: If eyes corrupt by over partial looks be anchored in
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  Speaker 1: the bay where all men ride, Why of eye's falsehood
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  Speaker 1: hast thou forged hooks, where to the judgment of my
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  Speaker 1: heart is tied? Why should my heart think that a
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  Speaker 1: several plot which my heart knows the wide world's commonplace?
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  Speaker 1: Or mine eyes seeing this say this is not to
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  Speaker 1: put fair truth upon so foul a face. In things right? True,
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  Speaker 1: my heart and eyes have erred, And to this false
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  Speaker 1: plague are they now transferred? And of chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty seven, Chapter one hundred and thirty eight, when
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  Speaker 1: my love swears that she is made of truth, I
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  Speaker 1: do believe her, though I know she lies. That she
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  Speaker 1: might think me some untutored youth, unlearned in the world's
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  Speaker 1: false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
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  Speaker 1: although she knows my days are past the best. Simply
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  Speaker 1: I credit her false speaking tongue on both sides. Thus
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  Speaker 1: is simple truth suppressed. But wherefore, says she not, she
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  Speaker 1: is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Love's best habit is in seeming, trust and age. In
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  Speaker 1: love loves not to have years told. Therefore I lie
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  Speaker 1: with her, and she with me, and in our faults
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  Speaker 1: by lies we flattered. B and of Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight Chapter one hundred and thirty nine, Oh, call
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  Speaker 1: not me to justify the wrong that thy unkindness lays
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  Speaker 1: upon my heart. Wound, be not with thine eye, but
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  Speaker 1: with thy tongue. Use power with power, and slay me
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  Speaker 1: not by art. Tell me thou lovest elsewhere, but in
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  Speaker 1: my sight, dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside.
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  Speaker 1: What needst thou wound with cunning, when thy might is
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  Speaker 1: more than my oor pressed defense can bind. Let me
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  Speaker 1: excuse thee ah. My love well knows her pretty looks
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  Speaker 1: have been mine enemies, And therefore from my face she
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  Speaker 1: turns my foes, that they elsewhere might dart their injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Yet do not so. But since I am near slain,
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  Speaker 1: kill me outright with looks and rid my pain. And
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one hundred and thirty nine, Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty. Be wise, as thou art cruel, Do not
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  Speaker 1: press my tongue tied patience with too much disdain, Lest
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  Speaker 1: sorrow lend me words, and words express the manner of
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  Speaker 1: my pity, wanting pain. If I might teach THEE wit
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  Speaker 1: better it were, though not to love, yet love to
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  Speaker 1: tell me so as testy sick men when their deaths
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  Speaker 1: be near, no news but health from their physicians know.
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  Speaker 1: For if I should despair, I should grow mad, and
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  Speaker 1: in my madness might speak ill of THEE. Now this
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  Speaker 1: ill resting world is grown so bad mad slanderers by
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  Speaker 1: mad ears believe it be that I may not be so,
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  Speaker 1: nor thou belied. Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud
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  Speaker 1: heart go wide, And of chapter one hundred forty, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one. In faith, I do not
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  Speaker 1: love THEE with mine eyes, for they in THEE a
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  Speaker 1: thousand errors. Note. But tis my heart that loves what
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  Speaker 1: they despise, who, in despite of you, is pleased to dope.
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  Speaker 1: Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tone delighted, nor
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  Speaker 1: tender feeling too base, touch is prone, nor taste nor
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  Speaker 1: smell desire to be invited to any sensual feast with
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  Speaker 1: THEE alone. But my five wits nor my five senses
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  Speaker 1: can dissuade one foolish heart from serving THEE who leaves
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  Speaker 1: unswayed the likeness of a man, thy proud heart's slave
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  Speaker 1: and vassal wretch to be only my plague. Thus far
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  Speaker 1: I count my gain that she that makes me sin
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  Speaker 1: awards me pain. And of Chapter one hundred forty one
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred forty two, love is my sin, and
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  Speaker 1: thy dear virtue hate, hate of my sin, grounded on
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  Speaker 1: sinful loving O. But with mine, compare thou thine own state,
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  Speaker 1: and thou shalt find it merits not reproving, or if
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  Speaker 1: it do not, from those lips of thine that have
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  Speaker 1: profan'd their scarlet ornaments, conceal'd false bonds of love, as
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  Speaker 1: oft as mind robb'd others beds revenues of their rents.
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  Speaker 1: Be it lawful? I love THEE as thou lovest those
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  Speaker 1: whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee root pity
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  Speaker 1: in thy heart that when it grows, thy pity may
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  Speaker 1: deserve to pity be If thou dost seek to have
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  Speaker 1: what thou dost hide thy self, example, mayst thou be denied?
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one hundred forty two. Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: forty three. Lo As a careful huss wife runs to
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  Speaker 1: catch one of her feathered creatures broke away, sets down
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  Speaker 1: her babe, and makes all swift dispatch in pursuit of
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  Speaker 1: the thing she would have stay, whilst her neglected child
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  Speaker 1: holds her in chase, cries to catch her whose busy
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  Speaker 1: care is bent to follow that which flies before her face,
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  Speaker 1: not prizing her poor infant's discontent. So run'st thou after
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  Speaker 1: that which flies from thee whilst I thy babe chase
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  Speaker 1: thee afar behind. But if thou catch thy hope, turn
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  Speaker 1: back to me and play the mother's part, kiss me
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  Speaker 1: be kind. So will I pray that thou mayst have
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  Speaker 1: thy will if thou turn back and my loud crying
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  Speaker 1: still end of chapter one hundred and forty three, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty four. Two loves I have of
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  Speaker 1: comfort and despair, which, like t whose spirits do suggest
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  Speaker 1: me still the better angel is a man right fair,
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  Speaker 1: the worser spirit a woman colored ill to win me
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  Speaker 1: soon to hell. My female evil tempteth my better angel
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  Speaker 1: from my side, and would corrupt my saint to be
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  Speaker 1: a devil, wooing his purity with her foul pride. And
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  Speaker 1: whether that my angel be turn'd fiend suspect, I may
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  Speaker 1: yet not directly tell, But being both from me, both
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  Speaker 1: to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell.
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  Speaker 1: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt
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  Speaker 1: till my bad angel fire my good one out. And
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one hundred and forty four, Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty five, those lips that Love's own hand did
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  Speaker 1: make breathed forth the sound that said, I hate to
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  Speaker 1: me that languish'd for her sake. But when she saw
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  Speaker 1: my woeful state straight in her heart, did see come chiding.
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  Speaker 1: That tongue that ever sweet, was used in giving gentle doom,
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  Speaker 1: and taught it thus anew to greet I hate. She
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  Speaker 1: altered with an end that followed it, as gentle day
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  Speaker 1: doth follow knight, who, like a fiend from heaven to hell,
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  Speaker 1: is flown away. I hate from hate away she threw
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  Speaker 1: and saved my life, saying not you. End of chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five, Chapter one hundred and forty six,
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  Speaker 1: Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth, My sinful earth,
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  Speaker 1: these rebel powers array. Why dost thou pine within and
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  Speaker 1: suffer dearth painting thy outward walls so costly? Gay? Why
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  Speaker 1: so large cost, having so short a lease, dost thou
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  Speaker 1: upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms inheritors of this
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  Speaker 1: success eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? Then, soul,
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  Speaker 1: live thou upon thy servant's loss, and let that pine
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  Speaker 1: to aggravate thy store. By terms divine in selling hours
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  Speaker 1: of dross within, be fed without be rich. No more
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  Speaker 1: so shalt thou feed on death that feeds on men
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  Speaker 1: and death. Once dead, there's no more nying then. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one hundred and forty six. Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty seven. My love is as a fever, longing
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  Speaker 1: still for that which longer nurseth, the disease, feeding on
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  Speaker 1: that which doth preserve thee ill, the uncertain, sickly appetite
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  Speaker 1: to please. By reason, the physician to my love, angry
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  Speaker 1: that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me and
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  Speaker 1: I desperate now approve desire is death, which physic did
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  Speaker 1: accept pass cure. I am now reason is past care
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  Speaker 1: and frantic mad with evermore unrest. My thoughts in my discourse,
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  Speaker 1: as madmen's, are at random from the truth vainly expressed.
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  Speaker 1: For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
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  Speaker 1: who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter one hundred and forty seven, Chapter one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight. Oh me, what eyes hath Love
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  Speaker 1: put in my head? Which have no correspondence with true sight?
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  Speaker 1: Or if they have, where is my judgment fled that
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  Speaker 1: censures falsely what they see? Aright? If that be fair?
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  Speaker 1: Whereon my false eyes dote? What means the world to
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  Speaker 1: say it is not so? If it be not, then
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  Speaker 1: love doth well denote Love's I is not so true
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  Speaker 1: as all men's. No how can it? Oh? How can
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  Speaker 1: love's eye be true? That is so vexed with watching
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  Speaker 1: and with tears no marvel? Then, though I mistake my view,
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  Speaker 1: the sun itself sees not till Heaven clears, Oh, cunning love,
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  Speaker 1: with tears, thou keep'st me blind, lest eyes well seeing
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  Speaker 1: thy foul faults should find end of chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty eight Chapter one hundred and forty nine, canst thou,
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  Speaker 1: O cruel, say I love THEE not when I against
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  Speaker 1: myself with THEE partake? Do I not think on THEE
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  Speaker 1: when I forgot am of myself all tyrant? For thy sake?
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  Speaker 1: Who hateth THEE? That I do call my friend? On
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  Speaker 1: whom frownest thou that I do fawn upon? Nay, if
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  Speaker 1: thou lust on me, do I not spend revenge upon
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  Speaker 1: myself with present moan? What merit do I in my
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  Speaker 1: self respect that is so proud thy service to despise
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  Speaker 1: when all my best doth worship thy defect commanded by
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  Speaker 1: the motion of thine eyes. But love hate am For
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  Speaker 1: now I know thy mind. Those that can see Thou lovest,
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  Speaker 1: and I am blind. And of chapter one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty nine, Chapter one hundred fifty O from what power
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  Speaker 1: hast thou this powerful might with insufficiency my heart to sway,
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  Speaker 1: to make me give the lie to my true sight
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  Speaker 1: and swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence
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  Speaker 1: hast thou this becoming of things? Ill that in the
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  Speaker 1: very refuse of thy deeds there is such strength and
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  Speaker 1: warranties of skill, that in my mind thy worst all
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  Speaker 1: best exceeds who taught THEE how to make me love
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  Speaker 1: THEE more. The more I hear and see just cause
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  Speaker 1: of hate. O, though I love what others, do abhoor
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  Speaker 1: with others. Thou shouldst not abhoor my state. If thy
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  Speaker 1: unworthiness raised love in me more worthy I to be
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  Speaker 1: beloved of THEE. And of Chapter one hundred fifty Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty one. Love is too young to
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  Speaker 1: know what conscience is. Yet who knows not conscience is
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  Speaker 1: born of love. Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss
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  Speaker 1: lest guilty of my faults, Thy sweet self prove for
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  Speaker 1: thou betraying me. I do betray my nobler part to
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  Speaker 1: my gross body's treason. My soul doth tell my body
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  Speaker 1: that he may triumph in love. Flesh stays no farther reason,
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  Speaker 1: but rising at thy name, doth point out THEE as
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  Speaker 1: his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride, he is contented,
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  Speaker 1: thy poor drudge, to be to stand in thy affairs
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  Speaker 1: fall by thy sigh. No want of conscience holdeth that
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  Speaker 1: I call her love for whose dear love I rise
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  Speaker 1: and fall. And of chapter one hundred fifty one Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two. In loving THEE, thou knowest,
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  Speaker 1: I am forsworn, But thou art twice forsworn to me
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  Speaker 1: love swearing in act thy bed, thou broke, and new
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  Speaker 1: faith torn, in vowing new hate after new love bearing.
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  Speaker 1: But why of two oaths breach do I accuse THEE?
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  Speaker 1: When I break twenty? I am perjured most, for all
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  Speaker 1: my vows are oaths. But to misuse THEE, and all
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  Speaker 1: my honest faith in THEE is lost. For I have
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  Speaker 1: sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness, oaths of thy love,
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  Speaker 1: thy truth, thy constancy, and to enlighten THEE gave eyes
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  Speaker 1: to blindness, or made them swear against the thing they see.
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  Speaker 1: For I have sworn THEE fair more perjured eye to
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  Speaker 1: swear against the truth, so foul a lie. And of
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  Speaker 1: chapter one hundred fifty two Chapter one hundred fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep a maid
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  Speaker 1: of dyings. This advantage found, and his love kindling fire
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  Speaker 1: did quickly steep in a cold valley, fountain of that
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  Speaker 1: ground which borrowed from this holy fire of love a
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  Speaker 1: dateless lively heat still to endure, and grew a seating bath,
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  Speaker 1: which yet men prove against strange maladies, a sovereign cure.
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  Speaker 1: But at my mistress eye, Love's brand new fired the
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  Speaker 1: boy for trials needs would touch my breast. I sick
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  Speaker 1: with all the help of bath, desired and thither hide
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  Speaker 1: a sad distemper'd yest, but found no cure. The bath,
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  Speaker 1: for my help lies where Cupid got new fire my
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  Speaker 1: mistress eyes. End of chapter one hundred and fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and fifty four. The little love God,
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  Speaker 1: lying once asleep, laid by his side his heart inflaming brand,
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  Speaker 1: whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep came
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  Speaker 1: tripping by. But in her maiden hand, the fairest votary
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  Speaker 1: took up that fire which many legions of true hearts
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  Speaker 1: had warmed. And so the general of hot desire was
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  Speaker 1: sleeping by a virgin hand. Disarmed this brand, she quenched
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  Speaker 1: in a cool well, by which from Love's fire took
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  Speaker 1: heat perpetual, growing a bath in healthful remedy for men diseased.
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  Speaker 1: But I, my mistress, came therefore cure in this by
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  Speaker 1: that I prove Love's fire heats water, Water cools not Love.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter one hundred and fifty four, and also
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  Speaker 1: the end of the Summits of William Shakespeare