| To love that well which thou must leave ere long. |

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Sonnet 74

|LXXIV. |

|But be contented: when that fell arrest |

|Without all bail shall carry me away, |

|My life hath in this line some interest, |

|Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. |

|When thou reviewest this, thou dost review |

|The very part was consecrate to thee: |

|The earth can have but earth, which is his due; |

|My spirit is thine, the better part of me: |

|So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life, |

|The prey of worms, my body being dead, |

|The coward conquest of a wretch's knife, |

|Too base of thee to be remembered. |

| The worth of that is that which it contains, |

| And that is this, and this with thee remains. |

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Sonnet 75

|LXXV. |

|So are you to my thoughts as food to life, |

|Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; |

|And for the peace of you I hold such strife |

|As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found; |

|Now proud as an enjoyer and anon |

|Doubting the filching age will steal his |

|treasure, |

|Now counting best to be with you alone, |

|Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;|

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|Sometime all full with feasting on your sight |

|And by and by clean starved for a look; |

|Possessing or pursuing no delight, |

|Save what is had or must from you be took. |

| Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, |

| Or gluttoning on all, or all away. |

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Sonnet 76

|LXXVI. |

|Why is my verse so barren of new pride, |

|So far from variation or quick change? |

|Why with the time do I not glance aside |

|To new-found methods and to compounds strange? |

|Why write I still all one, ever the same, |

|And keep invention in a noted weed, |

|That every word doth almost tell my name, |

|Showing their birth and where they did proceed? |

|O, know, sweet love, I always write of you, |

|And you and love are still my argument; |

|So all my best is dressing old words new, |

|Spending again what is already spent: |

| For as the sun is daily new and old, |

| So is my love still telling what is told. |

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Sonnet 77

|LXXVII. |

|Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, |

|Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; |

|The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, |

|And of this book this learning mayst thou taste. |

|The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show |

|Of mouthed graves will give thee memory; |

|Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know |

|Time's thievish progress to eternity. |

|Look, what thy memory can not contain |

|Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find|

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|Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain, |

|To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. |

| These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, |

| Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book. |

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Sonnet 78

|LXXVIII. |

|So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse |

|And found such fair assistance in my verse |

|As every alien pen hath got my use |

|And under thee their poesy disperse. |

|Thine eyes that taught the dumb on high to sing |

|And heavy ignorance aloft to fly |

|Have added feathers to the learned's wing |

|And given grace a double majesty. |

|Yet be most proud of that which I compile, |

|Whose influence is thine and born of thee: |

|In others' works thou dost but mend the style, |

|And arts with thy sweet graces graced be; |

| But thou art all my art and dost advance |

| As high as learning my rude ignorance. |

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Sonnet 79

|LXXIX. |

|Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, |

|My verse alone had all thy gentle grace, |

|But now my gracious numbers are decay'd |

|And my sick Muse doth give another place. |

|I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument |

|Deserves the travail of a worthier pen, |

|Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent |

|He robs thee of and pays it thee again. |

|He lends thee virtue and he stole that word |

|From thy behavior; beauty doth he give |

|And found it in thy cheek; he can afford |

|No praise to thee but what in thee doth live. |

| Then thank him not for that which he doth say, |

| Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay. |

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Sonnet 80

|LXXX. |

|O, how I faint when I of you do write, |

|Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, |

|And in the praise thereof spends all his might, |

|To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame! |

|But since your worth, wide as the ocean is, |

|The humble as the proudest sail doth bear, |

|My saucy bark inferior far to his |

|On your broad main doth wilfully appear. |

|Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat, |

|Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride; |

|Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat, |

|He of tall building and of goodly pride: |

| Then if he thrive and I be cast away, |

| The worst was this; my love was my decay. |

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|Sonnet 81 |

|LXXXI. |

|Or I shall live your epitaph to make, |

|Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; |

|From hence your memory death cannot take, |

|Although in me each part will be forgotten. |

|Your name from hence immortal life shall have, |

|Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: |

|The earth can yield me but a common grave, |

|When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. |

|Your monument shall be my gentle verse, |

|Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, |

|And tongues to be your being shall rehearse |

|When all the breathers of this world are dead; |

| You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen-- |

| Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. |

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Sonnet 82

|LXXXII. |

|I grant thou wert not married to my Muse |

|And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook |

|The dedicated words which writers use |

|Of their fair subject, blessing every book |

|Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue, |

|Finding thy worth a limit past my praise, |

|And therefore art enforced to seek anew |

|Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days |

|And do so, love; yet when they have devised |

|What strained touches rhetoric can lend, |

|Thou truly fair wert truly sympathized |

|In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; |

| And their gross painting might be better used |

| Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused. |

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Sonnet 83

|LXXXIII. |

|I never saw that you did painting need |

|And therefore to your fair no painting set; |

|I found, or thought I found, you did exceed |

|The barren tender of a poet's debt; |

|And therefore have I slept in your report, |

|That you yourself being extant well might show |

|How far a modern quill doth come too short, |

|Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow. |

|This silence for my sin you did impute, |

|Which shall be most my glory, being dumb; |

|For I impair not beauty being mute, |

|When others would give life and bring a tomb. |

| There lives more life in one of your fair eyes |

| Than both your poets can in praise devise. |

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Sonnet 84

|LXXXIV. |

|Who is it that says most? which can say more |

|Than this rich praise, that you alone are you? |

|In whose confine immured is the store |

|Which should example where your equal grew. |

|Lean penury within that pen doth dwell |

|That to his subject lends not some small glory; |

|But he that writes of you, if he can tell |

|That you are you, so dignifies his story, |

|Let him but copy what in you is writ, |

|Not making worse what nature made so clear, |

|And such a counterpart shall fame his wit, |

|Making his style admired every where. |

| You to your beauteous blessings add a curse, |

| Being fond on praise, which makes your praises |

|worse. |

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Sonnet 85

|LXXXV. |

|My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, |

|While comments of your praise, richly compiled, |

|Reserve their character with golden quill |

|And precious phrase by all the Muses filed. |

|I think good thoughts whilst other write good |

|words, |

|And like unletter'd clerk still cry 'Amen' |

|To every hymn that able spirit affords |

|In polish'd form of well-refined pen. |

|Hearing you praised, I say ''Tis so, 'tis true,' |

|And to the most of praise add something more; |

|But that is in my thought, whose love to you, |

|Though words come hindmost, holds his rank |

|before. |

| Then others for the breath of words respect, |

| Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. |

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Sonnet 86

|LXXXVI. |

|Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, |

|Bound for the prize of all too precious you, |

|That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, |

|Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? |

|Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write |

|Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? |

|No, neither he, nor his compeers by night |

|Giving him aid, my verse astonished. |

|He, nor that affable familiar ghost |

|Which nightly gulls him with intelligence |

|As victors of my silence cannot boast; |

|I was not sick of any fear from thence: |

| But when your countenance fill'd up his line, |

| Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine. |

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Sonnet 87

|LXXXVII. |

|Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, |

|And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: |

|The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; |

|My bonds in thee are all determinate. |

|For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? |

|And for that riches where is my deserving? |

|The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, |

|And so my patent back again is swerving. |

|Thyself thou gavest, thy own worth then not |

|knowing, |

|Or me, to whom thou gavest it, else mistaking; |

|So thy great gift, upon misprision growing, |

|Comes home again, on better judgment making. |

| Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter, |

| In sleep a king, but waking no such matter. |

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Sonnet 88

|LXXXVIII. |

|When thou shalt be disposed to set me light, |

|And place my merit in the eye of scorn, |

|Upon thy side against myself I'll fight, |

|And prove thee virtuous, though thou art |

|forsworn. |

|With mine own weakness being best acquainted, |

|Upon thy part I can set down a story |

|Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted, |

|That thou in losing me shalt win much glory: |

|And I by this will be a gainer too; |

|For bending all my loving thoughts on thee, |

|The injuries that to myself I do, |

|Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me. |

| Such is my love, to thee I so belong, |

| That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. |

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Sonnet 89

|LXXXIX. |

|Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, |

|And I will comment upon that offence; |

|Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt, |

|Against thy reasons making no defence. |

|Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill, |

|To set a form upon desired change, |

|As I'll myself disgrace: knowing thy will, |

|I will acquaintance strangle and look strange, |

|Be absent from thy walks, and in my tongue |

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