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<<<BARD---3981480174289>>>Did not the heavenly rhetoric of ,

'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,

Persuade my heart to this false perjury?

Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.

A  I forswore, but I will prove,

Thou being a , I forswore not thee.

My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;

Thy  being gain'd cures all dis- me.

Vows are but breath, and breath a vapor is;

Then thou, fair sun, which on my  dost shine,

Exhal'st this vapor-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 lose an oath to win a ?



[Act IV, Scene iii]