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The Sonnets VI - Then let not winters ragged hand deface

By William Shakespeare

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Then let not winters ragged hand deface,     In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilld:     Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place     With beautys treasure ere it be self-killd.     That use is not forbidden usury,     Which happies those that pay the willing loan;     Thats for thy self to breed another thee,     Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;     Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,     If ten of thine ten times refigurd thee:     Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,     Leaving thee living in posterity?     Be not self-willd, for thou art much too fair     To be deaths conquest and make worms thine heir.

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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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