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                  <text>105

"a unkindness cruelty, infidelity. 3 Wound me . . . thy tongue do not
make me see your infidelity; merely tell me about it. 4 Use power . . .
by art kill me directly with your full force and not by indirect contrived
means. 5-6 but in . . . eye aside but when you are with me restrain
yourself from casting loving eyes upon another. 8 o'erpress'd . . . bide
overpowered defences can resist. jo pretty wanton, lascivious. Ji my

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That thy unkindness lays upon my heartl
Wound me not withjhirm ^e, but with thy torigue;
Use power with^wet, and slay me not by^ll!')
Tell me thou
elsewtfere,-^ but in my sight.
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside.
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need
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Is more than my o’erpress’d defence can bide?''
Let me(S^se thee: — Ah, my love well know^
Her pretty looks have been mine enemies;
And therefore from my face she turns my foes,Thatjlx£.y.elsei^here might dart their injuries.^
/"VeiLdo not s^^ut since I am near slain, &gt;
Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain. -*

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140
SONNET 140. J press oppress.
4 pity-wanting unpitied.
6 so i.e.
that you do love me. 7 testy fretful. 8 know are told. ii ill-wresting
misinterpreting everything in an evil way. j2 mad ears i.e. persons as
ready to believe slander as I in my madness will be to slander you. 23

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Mv^on^e-tiet^ipatience with too much disdain; •
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
manner of my pity-wanting pain.
I If II mieht teach thee ^it', better it were,
though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;
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{As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
^o news but health from their piiysicians know.
i^or if I should despair, I should grow mad, \
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in_my madness might speak ill of thee-. \
this iU-wresting^wprld IS grown sdTjad^ /
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be.
That I may hot be so, nor thou belied,
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud Iwart go
wide.
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