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14 Cards in this Set
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Sonnet 9 line 1
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Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
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Sonnet 9 line 2
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That thou consum'st thy self in single life?
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Sonnet 9 line 3
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Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
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Sonnet 9 line 4
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The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;
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Sonnet 9 line 5
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The world will be thy widow and still weep
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Sonnet 9 line 6
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That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
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Sonnet 9 line 7
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When every private widow well may keep
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Sonnet 9 line 8
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By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
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Sonnet 9 line 9
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Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
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Sonnet 9 line 10
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Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
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Sonnet 9 line 11
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But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
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Sonnet 9 line 12
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And kept unused the user so destroys it.
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Sonnet 9 line 13
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No love toward others in that bosom sits
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Sonnet 9 line 14
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That on himself such murd'rous shame commits.
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