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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“I never saw that you did painting need”
Sonnet LXXXIII
| I NEVER saw that you did painting need |
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| And therefore to your fair no painting set; |
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| I found, or thought I found, you did exceed |
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| That barren tender of a poet’s debt: |
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| And therefore have I slept in your report, |
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| That you yourself, being extant, well might show |
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| How far a modern quill doth come too short, |
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| Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow. |
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| This silence for my sin you did impute, |
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| Which shall be most my glory, being dumb; |
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| For I impair not beauty being mute, |
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| When others would give life, and bring a tomb. |
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| There lives more life in one of your fair eyes |
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| Than both your poets can in praise devise. |
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