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- 1 That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
- 2 I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
- 3 Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave,
- 4 Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
- 5 O let me suffer (being at your beck)
- 6 Th’ imprisoned absence of your liberty,
- 7 And patience tame to sufferance bide each check,
- 8 Without accusing you of injury.
- 9 Be where you list, your charter is so strong,
- 10 That you yourself may privilage your time
- 11 To what you will, to you it doth belong,
- 12 Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
- 13 I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
- 14 Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well.