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Sonnet 87

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

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