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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600].
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False beleefe. [Sonnet CXXXVIII]
When my Love sweares that she is made of truth,
I doe beleeve her (though I know she lies)
That she might thinke me some untutor'd youth,
Vnskilfull in the worlds false forgeries.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinkes me young.
Although I know my yeares be past the best:
I smiling. credit her false speaking tongue,
Outfacing faults in Love, with loves ill rest.
But wherefore sayes my love that shee is young?
And wherefore say not I, that I am old?
O, Loves best habit is a soothing tongue,
And Age (in love) loves not to have yeares told.

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Therefore Ile lie with Love, and Love with me,
Since that our faults in Love thus smother'd be.
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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600].
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