Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 46 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 46 |
1 Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war 2 How to divide the conquest of thy sight; 3 Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar, 4 My heart mine eye the freedom of that right. 5 My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie 6 A closet never pierced with crystal eyes 7 But the defendant doth that plea deny 8 And says in him thy fair appearance lies. 9 To 'cide this title is impanneled 10 A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, 11 And by their verdict is determined 12 The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part: 13 As thus: mine eye's due is thy outward part, 14 And my heart's right thy inward love of heart. |
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