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- # Sonnet 46
## Overview
This is a text extraction of "Sonnet 46" from a larger collection of poetry, identified as a sonnet. It was extracted on January 30, 2026, as part of a digital workflow.
## Context
This sonnet is part of [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), a collection derived from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. "Sonnet 46" is preceded by [Sonnet 45](arke:01KG6S4C5ZMZ7ZK45WHAB3AEBY) and followed by [Sonnet 47](arke:01KG6S4C5ZMNEF4AP3KHKVYBXS) in the sequence.
## Contents
"Sonnet 46" explores the conflict between the eye and the heart for possession of the beloved's image. The sonnet describes the eye and heart as being in a "mortal war" over "the conquest of thy sight." A "quest of thoughts" is assembled to determine the division of the beloved, ultimately deciding that the eye is due "their outward part," while the heart claims "their inward love of heart."
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- Ine eye and heart are at a mortall ware,
How to deuide the conquest of thy fight,
Mine eye, my heart their pictures fight would barre,
My heart, mine eye the freedome of that right,
My heart doth plead that thou in him dooft lye,
(A closet neuer pearls with christall eyes)
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And fayes in him their faire appearance lyes.
To fide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all tennants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The cleere eyes moyitie, and the dcare hearts part.
As thus, mine eyes due is their outward part,
And my hearts right, their inward loue of heart.
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