Sonnets

Sonnet 10

For shame deny that bear’st love to any
Who for thyself art so unprovident.
Grant if wilt, art beloved of many,
But that none lov’st is most evident:
For art so possessed with murd’rous hate,
That ’gainst thyself stick’st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be chief desire:
O change thought, that I may change my mind,
Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
Be as presence is gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove,
Make another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in or .

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