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- # Sonnet 41
## Overview
This is a digital transcription of [Sonnet 41](arke:01KG6S4BK86475RS29EQEMMF6W) from a facsimile edition. It is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, exploring themes of love, temptation, and infidelity. The sonnet was extracted on January 30, 2026, as part of a structure extraction process.
## Context
This sonnet is part of a larger collection, [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), which includes several works by William Shakespeare. The collection is derived from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) and is associated with the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It appears in sequence between [Sonnet 40](arke:01KG6S4BK7YHM7NM0YT7A64E7Q) and [Sonnet 42](arke:01KG6S4BK8FSTBA71YV1KQ6APA).
## Contents
The sonnet discusses the speaker's feelings about their beloved's infidelity. It explores the idea that the beloved's beauty and youth make them susceptible to temptation, and questions their loyalty. The poem grapples with themes of betrayal and the speaker's internal conflict. The text includes page markers from the original facsimile edition, such as "Page 505," providing context for its original presentation.
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- Hose pretty wrong: that liberty commits,
When I am some-time absent from thy heart,
D
Thy
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# SHAKE-SPEARES.
Thy beautie, and thy yeares full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be wonne,
Beautious thou art, therefore to be affailed.
And when a woman woes, what womans fonne,
Will you ely leaue her till he haue preuailed.
Aye me bur yet thou might my feate for beare,
And chide thy beauty, and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their ryot euen there
Where thou art forst to breake a two-fold truth:
Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine by thy beautie beeing false to me.
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- Sonnet 41