Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry

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William Shakespeare 1564–1616
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Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my belovèd as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so. Kind is my love today, tomorrow kind, Still constant in a wondrous excellence; Therefore my verse to constancy confined, One thing expressing, leaves out difference. "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords. Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone. Which three till now never kept seat in one.

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    Who says this?

    Yes, yes, yes, I know Shakespeare WROTE this, but who SAID this?? Was this just a small lonely sonnet or was this in one of his plays?? If it's in a play then I need to know who said this... please email me about this!

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