| BUT do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine;
 And life no longer than thy love will stay,
 For it depends upon that love of thine.
 Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
 When in the least of them my life hath end.
 I see a better state to me belongs
 Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
 Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
 Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
 O! what a happy title do I find,
 Happy to have thy love, happy to die!
 But what’s so blessed-fair that fears no blot?
 Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.
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