Sonnet. Unrecompensed Devotion
My Fair's unkind, and I have spent my pains,
And purchas'd nothing but undue disdains.
Oh had she been as kind as I was true,
What praise to her, what joy to me'd been due?
But to my grief and her disgrace, I find
That fair ones too much lov'd, prove seldom kind,
What then, shall loving less be my revenge?
O no, I wrong my judgment if I change —
The dice are cast, and let her loathe or love,
I may unhappy, not inconstant prove,
For it is quite impossible for me,
To love her less, as more in love to be.
And purchas'd nothing but undue disdains.
Oh had she been as kind as I was true,
What praise to her, what joy to me'd been due?
But to my grief and her disgrace, I find
That fair ones too much lov'd, prove seldom kind,
What then, shall loving less be my revenge?
O no, I wrong my judgment if I change —
The dice are cast, and let her loathe or love,
I may unhappy, not inconstant prove,
For it is quite impossible for me,
To love her less, as more in love to be.
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