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- Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)
- William Shakespeare - 1564-1616
- Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- Is lust in action; and till action, lust
- Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
- Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
- Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight:
- Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
- Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
- On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
- Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
- Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
- A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
- Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
- All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
- To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
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