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The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare

The Passionate Pilgrim

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Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
’Gainst whom the world could not hold argument,
Persuade my heart to this false perjury? 
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. 
A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: 
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
Thy grace being gain’d cures all disgrace in me. 
My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is;
Then, thou fair sun, that on this earth doth shine,
Exhale this vapour vow; in thee it is: 
If broken, then it is no fault of mine. 
  If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
  To break an oath, to win a paradise?