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Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide

By William ShakespeareSource: William Shakespeare - PoetryDB (Public Domain)101 words

O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,

The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,

That did not better for my life provide

Than public means which public manners breeds.

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