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Notes
1] in favour with their stars] lucky.
3] bars] denies.
4] Unlook't for] unexpectedly.
9] painful] pains-taking or -enduring. famoused] celebrated (earliest citation in 1606); made famous. worth] not rhyming with line 11, "quite." Emendation to "fight," "might," and "right" (among other words) is possibly undecidable.
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Original text: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): c2r.
First publication date:
1609
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2008
Recent editing: 1:2008/8/22
Composition date:
1609
Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefgfhh