Sonnet 20

By William Shakespeare

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A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
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Hast thou the master mistress of my passion,
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A woman's gentle heart but not acquainted
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With shifting change as is false women's fashion,
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An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling:
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Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth,
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A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
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Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
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And for a woman wert thou first created,
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Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,
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And by addition me of thee defeated,
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By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
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    But since she pricked thee out for women's pleasure,
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    Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.

From Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted., At London : By G. Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be solde by William Aspley, 1609.

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