If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy ‘Will’,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil. 
‘Will’, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one. 
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckon’d none: 
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store’s account I one must be;
For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
That nothing me, a something sweet to thee: 
  Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
  And then thou lov’st me for my name is ‘Will.’

CXXXVII

Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
That they behold, and see not what they see? 
They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
Yet what the best is take the worst to be. 
If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor’d in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied? 
Why should my heart think that a several plot,
Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place? 
Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not,
To put fair truth upon so foul a face? 
  In things right true my heart and eyes have err’d,
  And to this false plague are they now transferr’d.

CXXXVIII

When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor’d youth,
Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties. 
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: 
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed: 
But wherefore says she not she is unjust? 
And wherefore say not I that I am old? 
O! love’s best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love, loves not to have years told: 
  Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,
  And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be.

CXXXIX

O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue: 
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov’st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside: 
What need’st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o’erpress’d defence can bide? 
Let me excuse thee:  ah! my love well knows
Her pretty looks have been mine enemies;
And therefore from my face she turns my foes,
That they elsewhere might dart their injuries: 
  Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,
  Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain.