Those petty wrongs that liberty commits...
Sonnet 41Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art and therefore to be won, Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed; And when a woman woos, what woman's son Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed? Ay me! but yet thou mightest my seat forbear, And chide try beauty and thy straying youth, Who lead thee in their riot even there Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth, Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee, Thine, by thy beauty being false to me. |
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It’s appropriate to your age and to your good looks that you should commit those little indiscretions (which you do) when you stop thinking of me sometimes. You’re tender, and so have to be wooed. You’re gorgeous, so of course people will try their luck with you: and when a woman puts herself out like that, what man would ever say no?
Dear me, you might have refrained from usurping me from my place, though! You could tell your loveliness and your undisciplined youthfulness off, for leading you into an area where your amusement will necessarily mean you’ll break two vows: making her break her vows [to me] by tempting her with being so handsome, and your vows, by your beauty making you cheat on me.
Dear me, you might have refrained from usurping me from my place, though! You could tell your loveliness and your undisciplined youthfulness off, for leading you into an area where your amusement will necessarily mean you’ll break two vows: making her break her vows [to me] by tempting her with being so handsome, and your vows, by your beauty making you cheat on me.