Sonnet
40:
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XL
Take all my loves, my love, yea take them
all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst
before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love
call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this
more.
Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well
shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be
foes.
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The volta’s
the yet in the last line. More
tomorrow morning—
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