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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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Vnkinde Abuse. [Sonnet CXXXIII / Sonnet CXXXIV]
Be shrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deepe wound it gives my friend and me;
I'st not enough to torture me along,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be.
Me from my selfe thy cruell eye hath taken,
And my next selfe thou harder hast ingrossed,
Of him, my selfe, and thee I am forsaken,
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed:
Prison my heart in thy steele bosomes ward,
But then my friends heart let my poore heart baile,
Who ere keepes me, let my heart be his garde,
Thou canst not then use rigor in my Iaile.
And yet thou wilt, for I being pent in thee,
Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.
So now I have confest that he is thine,
And I my selfe am morgag'd to thy will,
My selfe Ile forfeit, so that other mine,
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kinde,
He learned but suretie-like to write for me,
Vnder that bond that him as fast doth binde.

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The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer that put'st forth all to use,
And sue a friend, came debtor for my sake,
So him I loose through my unkinde abuse.
Him have I lost, thou hast both him and me,
He paies the whole, and yet I am not free.
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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].