If soul check that I come so near,
Swear to blind soul that I was Will,
And will soul knows is admitted there,
Thus far for love, my love-suit sweet fulfil.
Will will fulfil the treasure of love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one,
In things of great receipt with case we prove,
Among a number one is reckoned none.
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in store’s account I one must be,
For nothing hold me, so it please hold,
That nothing me, a something sweet to .
Make but my name love, and love that still,
And then lov’st me for my name is Will.
Sonnet 136
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