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Sonnet XV.

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Like a bad suitor desperate and trembling     From the mixed sense of being not loved and loving,     Who with feared longing half would know, dissembling     With what he'd wish proved what he fears soon proving,     I look with inner eyes afraid to look,     Yet perplexed into looking, at the worth     This verse may have and wonder, of my book,     To what thoughts shall't in alien hearts give birth.     But, as he who doth love, and, loving, hopes,     Yet, hoping, fears, fears to put proof to proof,     And in his mind for possible proofs gropes,     Delaying the true proof, lest the real thing scoff,         I daily live, i'th' fame I dream to see,         But by my thought of others' thought of me.

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