Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever,
now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to
cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me
bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped
this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me
last,
When other petty griefs have done their
spite
But in the onset come; so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's
might,
And other strains of woe, which now
seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee will not
seem so.
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