| mine eye hath play‘d the painter and hath stell‘d
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| thy beauty‘s form in table of my heart;
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| my body is the frame wherein ‚tis held,
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| and perspective it is the painter‘s art.
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| for through the painter must you see his skill,
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| to find where your true image pictured lies;
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| which in my bosom‘s shop is hanging still,
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| hat hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes —
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
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| mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
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| are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
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| delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes —
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
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| yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;
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| they draw but what they see, know not the heart.
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes —
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| now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done. |