Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CX

Sonnet CIX

Sonnet CXI

CX

 Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made my self a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new; Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth Askance and strangely; but, by all above, These blenches gave my heart another youth, And worse essays prov'd thee my best of love. Now all is done, save what shall have no end: Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof, to try an older friend, A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.   Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,   Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. 

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Sonnet CIX

Sonnet CXI