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Farewell | thou art | too dear | for my |
posses|sing,
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And like | enough | thou knowst | thy est|imate,
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The chart|er of | thy worth | gives thee |
releas|ing:
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My bonds | in thee | are all | deter|minate.
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For how | do^I hold thee | but by | thy
grant|ing,
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And for | that rich|es where | is my |
deserv|ing?
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o
The cause | of this | fair gift in me | is
want|ing,
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And so | my pa|tent back | again | is swerv|ing.
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Thy self | thou gavst,| thy own | worth^then |
not know|ing,
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Or me | to whom | thou gavst | it else | mistak|ing;
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o
So thy great gift | upon | mispri|sion
grow|ing,
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Comes home again,| on bet|ter judg|ment
mak|ing.
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Thus have | I had | thee^as | a dream | doth
flat|ter,
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In sleep | a king,| but wak|ing no | such^mat|ter.
*Lines 2 and 4 are pentameter; all other lines are hexameter