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 .
Sonnet 10
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