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	[[File:How can my muse want subject to invent,; While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse; Thine own sweet argument, too excellent; For every vulgar paper to rehearse?; O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me; Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;; For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,; When thou thy self dost give invention light? ; Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth; Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;; And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth; Eternal numbers to outlive long date.; If my slight muse do please these curious days,; The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.\|frameless\|alt=Detail of old-spelling text\|upright=1.5]]

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Sonnet 38 is written by William Shakespeare.

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 Thine own sweet argument, too excellent<br>
 For every vulgar paper to rehearse?<br>
 O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me<br>
 Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;<br>
 For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,<br>
 When thou thy self dost give invention light? <br>
 Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth<br>
 Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;<br>
 And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth<br>
 Eternal numbers to outlive long date.<br>
+If my slight muse do please these curious days,<br>
+The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.}}
-If my slight muse do please these curious days,<br>
-The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.<br>
-}}
 '''Sonnet 38''' is written by [[William Shakespeare]].
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