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Sonnet 138

            ,      ,    ,                      ,         ,
      When my | love swears / that she | is made | of truth,
         ,       ,            ,         ,          ,
      I do | believe | her though | I know | she lies,
            ,            ,          ,       ,         ,
      That she | might think | me some | untut|ored youth,
          ,       ,    .     T      T    T      ,
      Unlearn|ed in | the world's false sub|tleties.
             ,       ,         ,           ,          ,
      Thus^vain|ly think|ing that | she thinks | me young,
           ,           ,          ,          ,          ,
      Although | she knows | my days | are past | the best,
       ,           ,             ,     ,          ,
      Simply | I cred|it her / false-speak|ing tongue,
        .   T    T     T        ,        ,           ,
      *On both sides thus | is simp|le truth | suppressed:
            ,           ,         ,     ,           ,
      But where|fore* says | she not | she is | unjust?
            ,          ,        ,        ,       ,
      And where|fore* say | not^I | that I | am old?
      T   T     T      ,        2     ,        ,
      O love's best | habit | is in seem|ing trust,
           ,     .   T     T    T     .   T    T     T
      And age | in love, loves not | to have years told.
            ,        ,          ,         ,          ,
      Therefore | I lie | with her,| and she | with me,
           ,          ,          ,         ,         ,
      And in | our faults | by lies | we flat|tered be.

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