Loving
In loving thee, thou knows I have sworn,
But thou art twice sworn, to me love's affection
In act thy bed affirmed failed, and new allegiance act,
In vowing new aversion after new adulation attitude:
But why of two oaths' cleft do I condemn you,
When I break many?
I am false beyond measure;
For all my affirmations are oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest assurance in thee is absent:
For I have avowed ample guarantees of thy deep beneficence,
Oaths of thy love, thy candor, thy aplomb;
And, to awaken thee, gave eyes to comprehension,
Or made them swear against the thing that they see;
For I have sworn thee fair, more dishonest conclusion,
To swear against the truth so atrocious a lie!
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