...retains some of the hilleroess of the other cores propused: that may imroduce the following 111 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not hetter for my life provide Than puhlic means which puhlic manners hreeds. Thence comes it that my name...

...among the meaner sort.21 Shakespeare himself seems to suggest something similar in Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued...

...the sonnets. But here it is part of the erotic dance between himself and the beautiful boy: O, for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued...

...title's allusion to Shakespeare's Sonnet en seemed to hint at a shameful and even self-harming collusion: Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. But Auden's depreciation of what Philip Larkin called 'required writing' need not dictate...

...embarrassment, which the coat of arms he had successfully applied for had not even begun to remove. O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature is subdu'd...

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...shame at having made himself 'a motley to the view. 1 The lllth Sonnet is especially bitter:O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued...

...that your pity: ie, your pity alone 240 Shakespeare's Sonnets 241 111 O, for my sake do you Twith"1 Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,...for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. 4 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature is subdued...

...harmfull deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Then publick meanes which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,...And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it workes in, like the Dyers hand . . . Microcosmos, his conversion of Davies's routine metaphor 'the...