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1 As a decrepit father takes delight 2 To see his active child do deeds of youth, 3 So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, 4 Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth. 5 For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, 6 Or any of these all, or all, or more, 7 Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit, 8 I make my love engrafted to this store: 9 So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised, 10 Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give 11 That I in thy abundance am sufficed 12 And by a part of all thy glory live. 13 Look what is best, that best I wish in thee: 14 This wish I have; then ten times happy me!
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