William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXXXIV
So, now I
have confess'd that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgag'd
to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit,
so that other mine
Thou wilt restore
to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not,
nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous,
and he is kind;
He learn'd but surety-like
to write for me,
Under that bond that
him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy
beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that
putt'st forth all to use,
And sue a friend came
debtor for my sake;
So him I lose through
my unkind abuse.
Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:
He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.
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