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Philip Sidney - Sonnet 2: Not At First Sight
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Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot 
Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed; 
But known worth did in mine of time proceed, 
Till by degrees it had full conquest got: 

I saw and liked, I liked but loved not; 
I lov`d, but straight did not what Love decreed. 
At length to love`s decrees I, forc`d, agreed, 
Yet with repining at so partial lot. 

Now even that footstep of lost liberty 
Is gone, and now like slave-born Muscovite 
I call it praise to suffer tyranny; 

And now employ the remnant of my wit 
To make myself believe that all is well, 
While with a feeling skill I paint my hell.
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