Sonnets

Sonnet 35

No more be grieved at that which done,
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing trespass with compare,
My self corrupting salving amiss,
Excusing sins more than sins are:
For to sensual fault I bring in sense;
adverse party is advocate,
And ’gainst my self a lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate,
That I an accessary needs must be,
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.

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