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The Sonnets XXXVI - Let me confess that we two must be twain

By William Shakespeare

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Let me confess that we two must be twain,     Although our undivided loves are one:     So shall those blots that do with me remain,     Without thy help, by me be borne alone.     In our two loves there is but one respect,     Though in our lives a separable spite,     Which though it alter not loves sole effect,     Yet doth it steal sweet hours from loves delight.     I may not evermore acknowledge thee,     Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,     Nor thou with public kindness honour me,     Unless thou take that honour from thy name:     But do not so, I love thee in such sort,     As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

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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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