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Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you / As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; / That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend / Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. / I, like an usurp'd town, to another due, / Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. / Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, / But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. / Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, / But am betroth'd unto your enemy; / Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, / Take me to you, imprison me, for I, / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.