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TO THE.ONLIE. BEGETTER. OF.
THESE. INSVING. SONNETS .
Mr. W. H. ALL. HAPPINESSE.
AND. THAT. ETERNITIE.
PROMISED.
BY.
OVR EVER-LIVING POET.
WISHETH .
THE WELL-WISHING.
ADVENTVRER IN
SETTING.
FORTH.
T. T.
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I. From faireft creatures we defire increase
1. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
III. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
IV. Unthrifty loveliness, why doft thou spend
/v. Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
vi. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
VII. Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
VIII. Mufic to hear, why hear'st thou music fadly
IX. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye.
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x. For fhame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
XI. As fast as thou fhalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
XII. When I do count the clock that tells the time
XIII. O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
XIV. Not from the ftars do I my judgment pluck
xv. When I confider every thing that grows
XVI. But wherefore do not you a mightier way
XVII. Who will believe my verse in time to come
/ XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a fummer's day
XIX. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws.
xx. A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted 20
XXI. So is it not with me as with that Mufe
XXII. My glass shall not perfuade me I am old
XXIII. As an unperfect actor on the stage.
XXIV. Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath
ftell'd
xxv. Let those who are in favour with their stars
XXVI. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
XXVII. Weary with toil, I hafte me to my bed
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XXVIII. How can I then return in happy plight
| xxix. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
xxx. When to the feffions of sweet filent thought
XXXI. Thy bofom is endeared with all hearts
XXXII. If thou furvive my well-contented day
XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning have I seen
XXXIV. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
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XXXVI. Let me confefs that we two must be twain
XXXVII. As a decrepit father takes delight
XXXVIII. How can my Mufe want fubject to invent
XXXIX. O, how thy worth with manners may I fing
XL. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
XLI. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
XLII. That thou haft her, it is not all my grief
XLIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best fee
XLIV. If the dull fubftance of my flesh were thought
XLV. The other two, flight air and purging fire
XLVI. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
XLVII. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
XLVIII. How careful was I, when I took my way
XLIX. Against that time, if ever that time come
L. How heavy do I journey on the way
LI. Thus can my love excufe the flow offence
LII. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
LIII. What is your substance, whereof are you made
LIV. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
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