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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"Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.

Pages

72 (Book 72)

O Least the world should taske you to recite, What merit liu'd in me that you should loue After my death (deare loue) for get me quite, For you in me can nothing worthy proue. Vnlesse you would deuise some vertuous lye,

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To doe more for me then mine owne desert, And hang more praise vpon deceased I, Then nigard truth would willingly impart: O least your true loue may seeme falce in this, That you for loue speake well of me vntrue, My name be buried where my body is, And liue no more to shame nor me, nor you. For I am shamd by that which I bring forth, And so should you, to loue things nothing worth.
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