All mine was thine, before thou.

From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty’s rose might never die, but as the riper should by time decease, his tender heir might bear his memory:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, and summer’s.

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Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

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Shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, now is the time that face should form another, whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, thou dost.

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets published in his ‘quarto’.

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From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty’s rose might never die, but as the riper should by time decease, his tender heir might.

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Webtake all my loves, my love, yea take them all;

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;

Webfollowers of this line of argument suggest that shakespeare acknowledged the double desertion in sonnet 40—'take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all'—and.

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

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