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Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE <;vi-'\ vo-s-,+i1~~\I oF 1;\ZJ <: /,_ owS ye:::. <r< /'"'7')=!''"'<
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun( \v 5 \.--i ol.,J hOV--' \'J l"'11.?Q /&f cr.v~ ,-af/,L{/_ (

Coral is far more red than her lips' red; - {''- j}' 'J":'.J i:?R>"'-""

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses dttlta;~~tf;- red and white,
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,~\\ \o Jut no such roses see I in her cheeks; 'j de \ <; I ' I

~..c:r ,r And in some perfumes is there more delight

V'i2dso""'-~han in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
"- I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
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I grant I never saw a goddess go; - v 0~ 5

\rJti0- My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.- ltof--c-_J

\-osl And yet, by heaven, I think mv love as...ra.tL- - i/,,1}n /.;) / c"l/r. ,'r: 5"~,,_,' - <(
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. A£ any she belied with false compare. 1 1•
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Source: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume One Seventh Edition (2000)

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