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## Overview
This chapter, titled "# SOWNS.," is a component of the larger poetry collection, [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF). It spans lines 12391 to 12435 of its source text and was extracted on January 30, 2026.
## Context
The chapter is part of a collection of facsimile editions of William Shakespeare's works, which itself is contained within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y). It was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). This chapter follows the chapter titled [# Sonnets.](arke:01KG6S4D9E4JV47YN9YTPF4ME2) and precedes the chapter titled [# SHAKES-PHARES](arke:01KG6S4D9HRTJB7HCSK0BMFKCM).
## Contents
The chapter contains three sonnets, numbered 119, 117, and 118 (with an apparent numbering discrepancy). These sonnets explore themes of love, constancy, and the speaker's perceived failings. Sonnet 119 discusses the nature of love as a "Babe" that grows, while Sonnet 117 addresses accusations of the speaker's inconstancy and neglect. The text includes archaic spellings and phrasing characteristic of early modern English poetry.
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Might I not then say now I loue you best,
When I was certaine ore in-certainty,
Crowning the present, doubting of the rest:
Loue is a Babe, then might I not say so
To giue sull growth to that which still doth grow.
## 119
Let me not to the marriage of true mindes
Admit impediments, loue is not loue
Which alters wher it alteration findes,
Or bends with the remouer to remoue.
O no, it is an euer fixed marke
That lookes on tempests and is neuer shaken;
It is the star to euery wandring barke,
Whose worths vnknowne, although his hight be taken.
Lou’s not Times foole, though rosie lips and cheeks
Within his bending fickles compasse come,
Loue alters not with his breeze houres and weekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer writ, nor no man euer loued.
## 117
Acuse me thus, that I haue scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot vpon your dearest loue to call,
Whereto al bonds do tie me day by day,
That I haue frequent binne with vnknown mindes,
And giuen to time your owne deare purchas’d right,
That I haue hoysted saile to al the windes
Which should transport me sartheft from your sight.
Booke both my willfulnesse and errors downe,
And on iust proose surmise, accumulate,
Bring me within the leuel of your frowne,
But shoote not at me in your wakened hate:
Since my appeale saies I did striue to prooue
The constancy and virtue of your loue
H 118
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