Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40) - Cleo Laine

Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;

All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more

Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest

I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;

But yet be blam’d, if thou thy self deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest

I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief

Although thou steal thee all my poverty:

And yet, love knows it is a greater grief

To bear love’s wrong, than hate’s known injury

Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows

Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes