Sonnet 40

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 blamed, if thou thyself 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 greater wrong, than hate's known injury.

Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows，

Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.

四〇

夺掉我的爱，爱呵，请通通夺去；

看看比你已有的能多些什么？

没什么，爱呵，称得上真情实义；

我所爱早属你，纵使不添这个。

那么，你为爱我而接受我所爱，

我不能对你这享受加以责备；

但得受责备，若甘心自我欺绐，

你故意贪尝不愿接受的东西。

我可以原谅你的掠夺，温柔贼，

虽然你把我仅有的通通偷走；

可是，忍受爱情的暗算，爱晓得，

比憎恨的明伤是更大的烦忧。

风流的妩媚，连你的恶也妩媚，

尽管毒杀我，我们可别相仇视。