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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Who is it that says most? which can say more”
Sonnet LXXXIV
| WHO is it that says most? which can say more |
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| Than this rich praise,—that you alone are you? |
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| In whose confine immured is the store |
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| Which should example where your equal grew. |
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| Lean penury within that pen doth dwell |
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| That to his subject lends not some small glory; |
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| But he that writes of you, if he can tell |
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| That you are you, so dignifies his story, |
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| Let him but copy what in you is writ, |
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| Not making worse what nature made so clear, |
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| And such a counterpart shall fame his wit, |
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| Making his style admired every where. |
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| You to your beauteous blessings add a curse, |
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| Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse. |
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