| SAY that thou didst forsake me for some fault | |
| And I will comment upon that offence: | |
| Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt, | |
| Against thy reasons making no defence. | |
| Thou canst not love, disgrace me half so ill, | 5 |
| To set a form upon desired change, | |
| As I ’ll myself disgrace; knowing thy will, | |
| I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange; | |
| Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue | |
| Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell, | 10 |
| Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong, | |
| And haply of our old acquaintance tell. | |
| For thee, against myself I ’ll vow debate, | |
| For I must ne’er love him whom thou dost hate. |