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In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing;
In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn,
In vowing new hate after new love bearing:
But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee,
When I break twenty? I am perjur'd most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest faith in thee is lost:
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur'd I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie!
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 152 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet CLII", 1865-6 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 152, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-08-13
Line count: 14
Word count: 124
Amando te sono spergiuro, tu ben lo conosci, ma, quando tu giuri di amarmi, due volte hai spergiurato, hai prima violato i voti del tuo letto, poi i nuovi voti d’amore, traditi dal il tuo odio rinnovato. Ma perché t’accuso di due tradimenti se io ne faccio venti? Io sono il più spergiuro, perché ogni mio voto e fatto per ingannarti, e ogni mio onesto proposito sfuma quando ti vedo. Perché sulla tua bontà profonda ho fatto giuramenti, e anche sul tuo amore, la tua fermezza, la tua fedeltà,; e per darti splendore ho reso ciechi i miei occhi che hanno giurato di vedere l’opposto della realtà. Giurando poi che sei bella al punto sono arrivato di fare lo spergiuro più sfacciato!
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Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 152
This text was added to the website: 2025-07-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 122
