Shakespeare Lite: The Sonnets (I through XVII)

I
 From increase, that die, but decrease his memory,
But eyes feed'st fuel making lies thyself cruel.
Thou ornament and spring within content
And niggarding, pity be to thee.

II
When brow and field, thy now will held,
Then lies where days to eyes were praise.
How use if mine shall excuse proving thine,
This old and cold.

III
Look, viewest now another whose renewest
Thou mother, for womb disdains husbandry.
Or tomb of posterity. Thou thee calls prime.
So see despite time, but be die thee.

IV
Unthrifty spend upon legacy nature's lend
And free then abuse the give. Profitless use
so live for alone thou deceive. Then gone
what leave, thy thee which be.

V
Those frame the dwell will same and excel.
For on to there, sap gone, beauty where?
Then left a glass, beauty's bereft nor was
But meet leese sweet.

VI
Then deface in distilled. Make place with
Self-killed, that usury which loan.
That's thee or one, ten art if thee, then
leaving posterity. Be fair to heir.

VII
Lo, light lifts eye cloth sight serving majesty
And hill resembling age. Yet still attending pilgrimage,
But car like day the are from way,
So noon, unlooked son.

VIII
Music sadly sweets joy. Why gladly or annoy?
If sounds by ear they confounds in bear, mark another
Strikes ordering, resembling mother who sing,
Whose one sings none.

IX
Is eye that life? Ah! Die the wife,
The weep that behind,
When keep by mind, look spend shifts it.
But end and it, no sits that commits.

X
For any who unprovident grant many,
but evident for hate that conspire,
Seeking ruinate which desire. O, mind!
Shall love be kind or prove. Make me that thee.

XI
As grow'st in departest and bestow'st, thou
convertest. Herein increase without decay.
If cease and away, let store harsh perish. Look more
Which cherish, she thereby thou die.

XII
When time and night, when prime and white,
When leaves which herd and sheaves born beard,
Then make that go since forsake and grow,
And defence save hence.

XIII
O, are no live against prepare and give.
So lease find were yourself decease when bear.
Who decay which uphold against day
And cold, O, know you so.

XIV
Not pluck and astronomy, but luck of quality,
Nor tell pointing mod or well by find, but derive
And art as thrive if convert,
Or prognosticate thy date.

XV
When grows hold moment that shows
Whereon comment when increase cheered sky.
Vaunt decrease and memory, then stay sets sight,
Where decay to night, and you as new.

XVI
But way make Time, and decay with rhyme?
Now hours and unset with flowers much
Counterfeit, so repair which pen, neither fair
Can men, to still and skill.

XVII
Who come if deserts, though tomb which parts,
If eyes and graces, the lies such faces.
So age be tongue and rage and song,
But time, you rhyme.



Hal

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