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music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? if the true 1 of well-tuned sounds, by unions married, do offend thine ear, they do but sweetly 2 thee, who confounds in singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. mark how one string, sweet husband to another, strikes each in each by 3 ordering; resembling sire and child and happy mother, who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: whose speechless song being many, seeming one, sings this to thee: 'thou single 4 prove none.'