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- # Sonnet 49
## Overview
This is [Sonnet 49](arke:01KG6S4C66K97V8J5SS9DHQFRK), a poem of the type "sonnet." It was extracted on 2026-01-30 from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) by a structure extraction process. The sonnet is labeled "Sonnet 49" and appears on lines 11094-11110 of the source file.
## Context
[Sonnet 49](arke:01KG6S4C66K97V8J5SS9DHQFRK) is part of the poetry collection [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), which is a collection of facsimile editions of works by William Shakespeare. This collection is contained within the larger [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection, a main network test. It is preceded by [Sonnet 48](arke:01KG6S4C5Z73W65XYYRFVRS8JT) and followed by [Sonnet 50](arke:01KG6S4C66JRQQKX4BTW9XZX6V) in the collection.
## Contents
Sonnet 49 expresses the speaker's anticipation of a time when their love will fade and their beloved will find fault with them. The speaker prepares for this eventuality by acknowledging their own shortcomings and justifying the beloved's potential change of heart. The sonnet explores themes of self-awareness, acceptance of potential rejection, and the recognition of the beloved's right to withdraw affection. The final couplet emphasizes the speaker's lack of a justifiable cause for being loved, thus conceding to the beloved's strength of "lawes" to leave.
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- A Gainft that time (if euer that time come)
When I shall fee thee frowne on my defecfs,
When as thy loue hath caft his vimoft funnne,
Cauld to that audite by aduif’d reypefts,
Againft that time when thou fhalt frangely paffe,
And fcarcely greete me with that funne thine eye,
When loue conuerted from the thing it was
Shall reafons finde of fetled grauitie.
Againft that time do I infonce me here
Within the knowledge of mine owne defart,
And this my hand, againft my felfe vpreare,
To guard the lawfull reafons on thy part,
To leaue poore me, thou haft the ftrength of lawes;
Since why to loue, I can alledge no caufe.
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- Sonnet 49