by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Tired with all these, for restful death...
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Language: English
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Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappilly forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill, And simple truth miscalled simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill: Tired with all these, from these would I be gone, Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 66 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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