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The Sonnets CLI - Love is too young to know what conscience is

By William Shakespeare

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Love is too young to know what conscience is,     Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?     Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,     Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:     For, thou betraying me, I do betray     My nobler part to my gross bodys treason;     My soul doth tell my body that he may     Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,     But rising at thy name doth point out thee,     As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,     He is contented thy poor drudge to be,     To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.     No want of conscience hold it that I call     Her love, for whose dear love I rise and fall.

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William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 154 sonnets and narrative poems including "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," alongside 37 plays that remain central to world literature.

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