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 Iohn Wright, dwelling at Christ Church gate,
1609.
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Pages

24 (Book 24)

MIne eye hath play'd the painter and hath steeld, Thy beauties forme in table of my heart, My body is the frame wherein ti's held, And perspectiue it is best Painters art. For through the Painter must you see his skill,

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To finde where your true image pictur'd lies, Which in my bosomes shop is hanging stil, That hath his windowes glazed with thine eyes: Now see what good-turnes eyes for eies haue done, Mine eyes haue drawne thy shape, and thine for me Are windowes to my brest, where-through the Sun Delights to peepe, to gaze therein on thee Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art They draw but what they see, know not the hart.
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