Sonnet 136

  1. If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
  2. Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy ‘Will’,
  3. And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
  4. Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
  5. ‘Will’, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
  6. Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
  7. In things of great receipt with ease we prove
  8. Among a number one is reckon’d none:
  9. Then in the number let me pass untold,
  10. Though in thy store’s account I one must be;
  11. For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
  12. That nothing me, a something sweet to thee:
  13. Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
  14. And then thou lov’st me for my name is ‘Will.’

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