Shakespeare's Sonnets: O, for my sake do you with fortune chide

Sonnet 111

Original Text

SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): g4r.

2The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,

6And almost thence my nature is subdu'd

7To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

8Pity me then and wish I were renew'd,

9Whil'st like a willing patient I will drink

11No bitterness that I will bitter think,

12Nor double penance to correct correction.

13 Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye

1] with] Capell; wish Q. Back to Line

3] That] who. Back to Line

4] public means] ticket sales at theatres. Back to Line

5] Criminals were branded for their crimes. Back to Line

10] eisell] vinegar, administered medicinally, as to combat the plague. Extrametrical, like line 12. Back to Line

14] Ev'n] Euen Q. enough] perhaps sounded "'nough." Back to Line

Publication Start Year

1609

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

2008

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