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 April 28, 2025.

Pages

5 (Book 5)

THose howers that with gentle worke did frame, The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell Will play the tirants to the very same,

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And that vnfaire which fairely doth excell: For neuer resting time leads Summer on, To hidious winter and confounds him there, Sap checkt with frost and lustie leau's quite gon. Beauty ore-snow'd and barenes euery where, Then were not summers distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glasse, Beauties effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor noe remembrance what it was. But flowers distil'd though they with winter meete, Leese but their show, their substance still liues sweet.
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