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Sonnet 57

  1. 1 Being your slave what should I do but tend,
  2. 2 Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
  3. 3 I have no precious time at all to spend;
  4. 4 Nor services to do till you require.
  5. 5 Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
  6. 6 Whilst I (my sovereign) watch the clock for you,
  7. 7 Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
  8. 8 When you have bid your servant once adieu.
  9. 9 Nor dare I question with my jealous thought,
  10. 10 Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
  11. 11 But like a sad slave stay and think of nought
  12. 12 Save where you are, how happy you make those.
  13. 13 So true a fool is love, that in your will,
  14. 14 (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.