Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

Sonnet 41

Original Text
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): d1r-d1v.
1Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
2When I am some-time absent from thy heart,
3Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,
4For still temptation follows where thou art.
5Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
6Beaut'ous thou art, therefore to be assailed.
7And when a woman woos, what woman's son
8Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?
9Aye me, but yet thou might'st my seat forbear
10And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth
11Who lead thee in their riot even there
12Where thou art forc't to break a two-fold truth:
13    Hers, by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
14    Thine, by thy beauty being false to me.

Notes

4] still] always. Back to Line
6] Beaut'ous] Beautious Q. Back to Line
8] sourly] in bad temper. Back to Line
9] might'st] mighst Q Back to Line
11] riot] wildness. Back to Line
12] truth] troth, vow. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1609
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2008
Rhyme
ababcdcdefefgg
Form
sonnet