Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 82 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 82 |
1 I grant thou wert not married to my Muse 2 And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook 3 The dedicated words which writers use 4 Of their fair subject, blessing every book. 5 Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue, 6 Finding thy worth a limit past my praise, 7 And therefore art enforced to seek anew 8 Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days 9 And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd 10 What strained touches rhetoric can lend, 11 Thou truly fair wert truly sympathiz'd 12 In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; 13 And their gross painting might be better us'd 14 Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd. |
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