Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted.

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Title
Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted.
Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Publication
At London :: By G. Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be solde by William Aspley,
1609.
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"Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12043.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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DEuouring time blunt thou the Lyons pawes, And make the earth deuoure her owne sweet brood, Plucke the keene teeth from the fierce Tygers yawes, And burne the long liu'd Phaenix in her blood, Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st, And do what ere thou wilt swift-footed time To the wide world and all her fading sweets: But I forbid thee one most hainous crime,

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O carue not with thy howers my loues faire brow, Nor draw noe lines there with thine antique pen, Him in thy course vntainted doe allow, For beauties patterne to succeding men. Yet doe thy worst ould Time dispight thy wrong, My loue shall in my verse euer liue young.
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