Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text/Sonnet 152
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152
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing;
In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn,
In vowing new hate after new love bearing. 4
But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee,
When I break twenty? I am perjur'd most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest faith in thee is lost: 8
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see; 12
For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur'd I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie!
152. 3 torn: broken
7 misuse: speak falsely of
11 enlighten: shed lustre upon