The loves and heroines of the poets . aveuly power that oft hath me dismayed, Yet such a power as doth in beauty , lute ; my ceaseless suit will neer be heard : (Ah ! too hard-hearted she that will not hear it!)If I but think on joy, my joy is marred, My grief is great, yet ever must I bear love twixt iis will prove a faithful she will love my sorrows to assuage. Weep now no more, mine eyes, but be you drowned In your own tears, so many years distilled :And let her know that at them long hath frowned. That you can weep no more, although she hap her cruelt
The loves and heroines of the poets . aveuly power that oft hath me dismayed, Yet such a power as doth in beauty , lute ; my ceaseless suit will neer be heard : (Ah ! too hard-hearted she that will not hear it!)If I but think on joy, my joy is marred, My grief is great, yet ever must I bear love twixt iis will prove a faithful she will love my sorrows to assuage. Weep now no more, mine eyes, but be you drowned In your own tears, so many years distilled :And let her know that at them long hath frowned. That you can weep no more, although she hap her cruelty hath her allotten, WTio whilom was commandress of each part:That now her proper griefs must be forgotten. By those true outward signs of inward how can he that hath not one tear left him, Stream out those floods thats due unto her moaning,When both of eyes and tears she hath bereft him ? O yet Ill signify my grief with groaning!True sighs, true groans shall echo in the air,And say Fidessa (though most cruel) is most WILLIAM SHAKESPEAKE. 1564—1616. The sonnets of Shakespeare are a puzzle to his commentators, who cannot agree upontlie person to whom they were addressed. They—the sonnets, not the commentators—were pubhshed for the first time in 1609, and dedicated by the publisher, T. T.(Thomas Thorpe), to Mr. W. H., whom he declared to be their onlie begetter. WhoMr. W. H. was, has never been settled. Dr. Farmer supposed the initials were those ofWilliam Harte, the poets nephew; but as that young gentleman was only nine yearsold when the sonnets were published, his suggestion refuted itself. Tyrwhitt pointedout a line in the twentieth sonnet, A man in hue, aU hues in liis controlling, and because the word hues was printed Hews in tlie old edition, inferred that they stoodfor William Hews, or Hughes. Dr. Drake was for reversing them, when they wouldstand for those of Henry Wriothesley, the patron and friend of Shakespeare, to whom Veitds and Adonis, and Th
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