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If yet I have not all thy love, / Dear, I shall never have it all; / I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move, / Nor can intreat one other tear to fall; / And all my treasure, which should purchase thee, / Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters I have spent; / Yet no more can be due to me, / Than at the bargain made was meant. / If then thy gift of love were partial, / That some to me, some should to others fall, / Dear, I shall never have thee all.
Or if then thou gavest me all, / All was but all, which thou hadst then; / But if in thy heart since there be or shall / New love created be by other men, / Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears, / In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid me, / This new love may beget new fears, / For this love was not vow'd by thee. / And yet it was, thy gift being general; / The ground, thy heart, is mine; what ever shall / Grow there, dear, I should have it all.