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Oh how | much^more | doth beaut|y beaut|eous seem
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By that | sweet^orn|ament | which^truth | doth^give.
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The rose looks fair,| but fair|er we | it deem
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For that | sweet^o|dor, which | doth^in | it
live.
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The cank|er blooms | have* full | as deep | a dye
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As the / perfum|ed tinc|ture of | the ros|es,
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Hang^on | such^thorns, | and play | as want|only
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When sum|mer's breath | their mask|ed buds
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But for | their vir|tue on|ly is | their show,
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They live | unwooed, | and un|respect|ed
fade,
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Die to them|selves. Sweet ros|es do | not so,
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Of their | sweet^deaths | are sweet|est o|dors
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And so | of you, | beauteous | and love|ly youth,
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When that | shall vade, | my verse | distills |
your truth.
Lines 6 and 8 are hexameter