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<T PASSIONATE PILGRIM>
 ((Collection of 20 poems, 5 of which are versions of verse known to
 be by Shakespeare, published by W. Jaggard in 1599))
<P A3><L 1>
 <N 1> ((Sonnet 138))
 When my Loue sweares that she is made of truth,
 I doe beleeue her (though I know she lies)
 That she might thinke me some vntutor'd youth,
 Vnskilfull in the worlds false forgeries.
 Thus vainly thinking that she thinkes me young,
 Although I know my yeares be past the best:
 I smiling, credite her false speaking toung,
 Outfacing faults in Loue, with loues #ill rest.
 But wherefore sayes my Loue that she is young?
 And wherefore say not I, that I am old?
 O, Loues best habite is a soothing toung,
 And Age (in Loue) loues not to haue yeares told.
 Therfore Ile lye with Loue, and Loue with me,
 Since that our faults in Loue thus smother'd be.
<P A4>
 <N 2> ((Sonnet 144))
 Two Loues I haue, of Comfort, and Despaire,
 That like two Spirits, do suggest me still:
 My better Angell is a Man (right faire)
 My wors . . .