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91Sonnet 71 — Sonnet|71 No longer mourn for me when I am dead Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it;… …
92Sonnet 92 — Sonnet|92 But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine, And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them… …
93Sonnet 70 — Sonnet|70 That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander s mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven s sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater,… …
94Sonnet 75 — Sonnet|75 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 …
95Sonnet 78 — Sonnet|78 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 …
96Sonnet 79 — sonnet|79 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 an other place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a… …
97Sonnet 80 — sonnet|80 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… …
98Sonnet 88 — Sonnet|88 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… …
99Sonnet 89 — Sonnet|89 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… …
100Sonnet 81 — Sonnet|81 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 …
