十四行詩 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 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.

奪掉我的愛，愛呵，請通通奪去；

看看比你已有的能多些什麼？

沒什麼，愛呵，稱得上真情實義；

我所愛早屬你，縱使不添這個。

那麼，你爲愛我而接受我所愛，

我不能對你這享受加以責備；

但得受責備，若甘心自我欺紿，

你故意貪嘗不願接受的東西。

我可以原諒你的掠奪，溫柔賊，

雖然你把我僅有的通通偷走；

可是，忍受愛情的暗算，愛曉得，

比憎恨的明傷是更大的煩憂。

　　風流的嫵媚，連你的惡也嫵媚，

　　儘管毒殺我，我們可別相仇視。