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Notes
2] the better part] sometimes an allusion to a friend, the soul, a spouse (OED, "better, a., 3c).
5] Even for this] For exactly this reason.
10] sour] disagreeable.
12] dost] the second-person form of the verb suggests that the beloved is meant as the subject, although grammatically it is "time and thoughts" .
13] thou] absence (line 9). one twain] two of one.
Online text copyright © 2012, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): d1r.
First publication date:
1609
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2008
Recent editing: 1:2008/8/23
Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefefgg