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14 Cards in this Set
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Sonnet 124 line 1
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If my dear love were but the child of state,
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Sonnet 124 line 2
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It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd
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Sonnet 124 line 3
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As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,
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Sonnet 124 line 4
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Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather'd.
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Sonnet 124 line 5
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No, it was builded far from accident;
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Sonnet 124 line 6
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It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
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Sonnet 124 line 7
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Under the blow of thralled discontent,
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Sonnet 124 line 8
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Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:
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Sonnet 124 line 9
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It fears not policy, that heretic,
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Sonnet 124 line 10
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Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
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Sonnet 124 line 11
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But all alone stands hugely politic,
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Sonnet 124 line 12
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That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.
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Sonnet 124 line 13
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To this I witness call the fools of time,
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Sonnet 124 line 14
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Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.
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