Sonnet 57

  1. Being your slave what should I do but tend,
  2. Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
  3. I have no precious time at all to spend;
  4. Nor services to do, till you require.
  5. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
  6. Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
  7. Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
  8. When you have bid your servant once adieu;
  9. Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
  10. Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
  11. But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
  12. Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
  13. So true a fool is love, that in your will,
  14. Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

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