"Sonnet 10" by William Shakespeare

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What, still no kids yet? You think I'm gonna stop nagging you? Dude, I'm an author, I get *paid* to write poems! This ain't over, not by a long shot!

Again I wonder about vowel shifts over the past 400 years - did 'love' and 'prove' rhyme in Shakespeare's day? Or just more slanted rhyme? Stupid English vowel shifting over the centuries...

For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident;
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate,
That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind!
Shall hate be fairer lodg'd than gentle love?
Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove;
Make thee another self, for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.