| IN LOVING thee thou know’st I am forsworn, But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing;
 In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn,
 In vowing new hate after new love bearing:
 But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee,
 When I break twenty? I am perjur’d most;
 For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
 And all my honest faith in thee is lost:
 For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
 Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
 And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
 Or made them swear against the thing they see;
 For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur’d I,
 To swear against the truth so foul a lie.!
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