William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXIV
Or whether
doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's
plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I
say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love
taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters
and things indigest
Such cherubins as
your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad
a perfect best,
As fast as objects
to his beams assemble?
O! 'tis the first,
'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mind
most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows
what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate
doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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