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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76 (Book 76)
WHy is my verse so barren of new pride?
So far from variation or quicke change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, euer the same,
And keepe inuention in a noted weed,
That euery word doth almost fel my name,
Shewing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know sweet loue I alwaies write of you,
And you and loue are still my argument:
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending againe what is already spent:
For as the Sun is daily new and old,
So is my loue still telling what is told,