Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
Edward Fox * Track #33 On When Love Speaks - The Sonnets
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- #2Live With Me and Be My Love
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- #3As an unperfect actor on the stage
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- #4My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
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- #5Why is my verse so barren of new pride
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- #6Who will believe my verse in time to come
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- #7That you were once unkind befriends me now
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- #8How oft when thou, my music
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- #9When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
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- #10Being your slave, what should I do but tend
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- #11Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
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- #12When I consider everything that grows
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- #14They that have power to hurt, and will do none
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- #16Come again, sweet love doth now invite
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- #17Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame
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- #18Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
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- #19I never saw that you did painting need
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- #20When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
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- #21It is thy will thy image should keep open
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- #22Mine eye and heart are at mortal war
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- #23No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
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- #26Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
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- #27How heavy do I journey on the way
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- #28Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
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- #29Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
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- #30Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
Edward Fox
- #31Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
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- #32So it is not with me as with that Muse
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- #33Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws
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- #34When my love swears that she is made of truth
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- #35When I do count the clock that tells the time
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- #36What potions have I drunk of siren tears
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- #37Not marble nor the gilded monuments
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- #38Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
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- #39Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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- #40When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
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- #41No longer mourn for me when I am dead
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- #42In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes
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- #43Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
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- #44Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
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- #45My love is as a fever, longing still
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- #46Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day
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- #47Our revels are now ended
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Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by Edward Fox
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William ShakespeareBe wise as thou art cruel; do not press Lyrics
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain
If I might teach thee wit, better it were
Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near
No news but health from their physicians know;
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad
And in my madness might speak ill of thee:
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be
That I may not be so, nor thou belied
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press Q&A
Who wrote Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press's ?
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press was written by William Shakespeare.
Who produced Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press's ?
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press was produced by Joy Gelardi.