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Sonnet 66

  1. 1 Tired with all these, for restful death I cry:
  2. 2 As to behold desert a beggar born,
  3. 3 And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,
  4. 4 And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
  5. 5 And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
  6. 6 And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
  7. 7 And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
  8. 8 And strength by limping sway disabled
  9. 9 And art made tongue-tied by authority,
  10. 10 And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
  11. 11 And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
  12. 12 And captive good attending captain ill.
  13. 13 Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
  14. 14 Save that to die, I leave my love alone.