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SONNET. XLII.
[The loue which me so cruelly tormenteth]
The loue which me so cruelly tormenteth,So pleasing is in my extreamest paine:
that all the more my sorrow it augmenteth,
the more I loue and doe embrace my bane.
Ne doe I wish (for wishing were but vaine)
to be acquit fro my continuall smart:
but ioy her thrall for euer to remayne,
and yield for pledge my poore captyued hart;
The which that it from her may neuer start,
let her, yf please her, bynd with adamant chayne:
and from all wandring loues which mote peruart
his safe assurance, strongly it restrayne.
Onely let her abstaine from cruelty,
and doe me not before my time to dy.
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