In loving know’st I am forsworn,
But art twice forsworn to me love swearing,
In act bed-vow broke and new faith torn,
In vowing new hate after new love bearing:
But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse ,
When I break twenty? I am perjured most,
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse :
And all my honest faith in is lost.
For I have sworn deep oaths of deep kindness:
Oaths of love, truth, constancy,
And to enlighten gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see.
For I have sworn fair: more perjured I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie.
Sonnet 152
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