Sonnet 116

William Shakespeare

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1   let m nɒt tʊ ðə ˈmær.ɪʤ əv tr mɑɪndz10 17 
2   ədˈmɪt ɪmˈped.ɪ.mənts lʌv ɪz nɒt lʌv10 10 17 
3   wɪʧ ˈɔːl.təz wen ɪt ˌɔːl.tərˈ.ʃən fɑɪndz10 17 
4   ɔː bendz wɪð ðə rɪˈm.və tʊ rɪˈmv10 14 
5   əʊ nəʊ ɪt ɪz ən ˈev.ə fɪkst mɑːk11 
6   ðət lʊks ɒn ˈtem.pɪsts ənd ɪz ˈnev.ə ˈʃ.kən10 11 20 
7   ɪt ɪz ðə stɑː tʊ ˈev.ri ˈwɒn.drɪŋ bɑːk10 15 
8   hz wɜːθs ʌnˈnəʊn ɔːlˈðəʊ hɪz hɑɪt bi ˈt.kən11 18 
9   lʌvz nɒt tɑɪmz fl ðəʊ ˈrəʊ.zi lɪps ənd ʧks10 21 
10   wɪˈðɪn hɪz ˈben.dɪŋ ˈsɪk.z ˈkʌm.pəs kʌm19 
11   lʌv ˈɔːl.təz nɒt wɪð hɪz brf ɑʊəz ənd wks11 20 
12   bət bz ɪt ɑʊt ˈ.vən tʊ ði eʤ əv dm11 14 
13   ɪf ðɪs bi ˈer.ər ənd əˈpɒn m prvd10 15 
14   ɑɪ ˈnev.ə rɪt nɔː nəʊ mæn ˈev.ə lʌvd10 12 
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Let me not to the marriage of true mindes
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration findes,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever fixed marke
That lookes on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandring barke,
Whose worths unknowne, although his higth be taken.
Lov’s not Times foole, though rosie lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickles compasse come,
Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes,
But beares it out even to the edge of doome:
     If this be error and upon me proved,
     I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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