Sonet 21

You cannot loue my pretty hart, and why?

There was a time, you told me that you would,

But now againe you will the same deny,

If it might please you, would to God you could;

What will you hate? nay, that you will not neither,

Nor loue, nor hate, how then? what will you do,

What will you keepe a meane then betwixt eyther?

Or will you loue me, and yet hate me to?

Yet serues not this, what next, what other shift?

You will, and will not, what a coyle is heere,

I see your craft, now I perceaue your drift,

And all this while, I was mistaken there.

Your loue and hate is this, I now doe proue you,

You loue in hate, by hate to make me loue you.

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