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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

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Sonnet XXXII. A thousand times to think and think the same

Thomas Lodge (1558–1625)

A THOUSAND times to think and think the same

To two fair eyes to show a naked heart,

Great thirst with bitter liquor to restrain,

To take repast of care and crooked smart;

To sigh full oft without relent of ire,

To die for grief and yet conceal the tale,

To others’ will to fashion my desire,

To pine in looks disguised through pensive-pale;

A short despite, a faith unfeigned true,

To love my foe, and set my life at naught,

With heedless eyes mine endless harms to view

A will to speak, a fear to tell the thought;

To hope for all, yet for despair to die,

Is of my life the certain destiny.