XLV

Mine eye bewrays the secrets of my heart,

My heart unfolds his grief before her face;

Her face--bewitching pleasure of my smart!--

Deigns not one look of mercy and of grace.

My guilty eye of murder and of treason,--

Friendly conspirator of my decay,

Dumb eloquence, the lover's strongest reason!--

Doth weep itself for anger quite away,

And chooseth rather not to be, than be

Disloyal, by too well discharging duty;

And being out, joys it no more can see

The sugared charms of all deceiving beauty.

But, for the other greedily doth eye it,

I pray you tell me, what do I get by it?

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