- In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn,
- But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing;
- In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn,
- In vowing new hate after new love bearing:
- But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee,
- When I break twenty? I am perjur’d most;
- For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
- And all my honest faith in thee is lost:
- For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
- Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
- And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
- Or made them swear against the thing they see;
- For I have sworn thee fair; more perjured I,
- To swear against the truth so foul a lie.