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The Sonnets CXXXVII - Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes

By William Shakespeare

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Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,     That they behold, and see not what they see?     They know what beauty is, see where it lies,     Yet what the best is take the worst to be.     If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,     Be anchord in the bay where all men ride,     Why of eyes falsehood hast thou forged hooks,     Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?     Why should my heart think that a several plot,     Which my heart knows the wide worlds common place?     Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not,     To put fair truth upon so foul a face?     In things right true my heart and eyes have errd,     And to this false plague are they now transferrd.

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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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