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Unthrif|ty love|liness, | why dost | thou spend
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Upon | thyself | thy beaut|y's leg|acy?
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Nature's | bequest | gives noth/ing but | doth^lend,
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And be|ing frank | she lends | to those | are
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Then, beaut/eous | niggard, | why* dost |
thou^abuse
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The bount|eous lar/gess giv|en thee | to give?
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Profit|less us|urer, why*| dost thou use
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So great | a sum | of sums, | yet canst | not
live?
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For hav|ing traf|fic with | thyself | alone,
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Thou^of | thyself | thy sweet | self dost deceive.
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Then how, | when na|ture calls | thee to | be
gone,
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What ac|ceptab|le aud|it canst | thou leave?
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Thy un|used^beaut|y must | be tombed | with thee,
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Which used lives | the exec|utor | to be.