Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thou blind fool love, what dost thou to mine eyes

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Thou blind fool love, what dost thou to mine eyesThat they behold and see not what they see?They know what beauty is, see where it lies,Yet what the best is, take the worst to be.If eyes corrupt by over-partial looksBe anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,Why of eye's falsehood hast thou forgèd hooksWhereto the judgement of my heart is tied?Why should my heart think that a several plot,Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is notTo put fair truth upon so foul a face? In things right true my heart and eyes have erred, And to this false plague are they now transferred.

© William Shakespeare