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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Loves safetie. [Sonnet CXXIV]
If my deare love were but the child of state,
It might for fortunes bastard be unfathered,
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As subject to times love, or to times hate,
Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd.
No it was builded far from accident,
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Vnder the blow of thralled discontent,
Whereto th'inviting time our fashion calls:
It feares not policy that Heriticke,
Which workes on leases of short numbred howers,
But all alone stands hugely polliticke,
That it nor growes with heat, nor drownes with showres.
To this I witnesse call the fooles of time,
Which dye for goodnesse, who have liv'd for crime.
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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