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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let not my love be call'd idolatry

Sonnet 105
Shakespeare, William
1Let not my love be call'd idolatry
2Nor my belovèd as an idol show,
3Since all alike my songs and praises be
4To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
5Kind is my love to day, to morrow kind,
6Still constant in a wond'rous excellence.
7Therefore my verse to constancy confin'd,
8One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
9Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
10Fair, kind and true, varying to other words,
11And in this change is my invention spent,
12Three themes in one, which wond'rous scope affords.
13    Fair, kind, and true have often liv'd alone,
14    Which three till now never kept seat in one.

Notes

2] idol show] possibly punning on "idle." Back to Line
4] still] always. Back to Line
5] my love] my beloved. Back to Line
10] to other] perhaps "t'other". Back to Line
11] change] variation of words that have the same meaning. Back to Line