Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editors: Hardy M. Cook, Ian Lancashire

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The Sonnets (Modern)
- Work
- Poem
  1. Dedication
  2. 1 — 3
  3. 4 — 6
  4. 7 — 9
  5. 10 — 12
  6. 13 — 15
  7. 16 — 18
  8. 19 — 21
  9. 22 — 24
  10. 25 — 27
  11. 28 — 30
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  46. 133 — 135
  47. 136 — 138
  48. 139 — 141
  49. 142 — 144
  50. 145 — 147
  51. 148 — 150
  52. 151 — 153
  53. 154
Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
- Work
- Poem
  1. Titlepage
  2. Dedication
  3. 1 — 3
  4. 4 — 6
  5. 7 — 9
  6. 10 — 12
  7. 13 — 15
  8. 16 — 18
  9. 19 — 21
  10. 22 — 24
  11. 25 — 27
  12. 28 — 30
  13. 31 — 33
  14. 34 — 36
  15. 37 — 39
  16. 40 — 42
  17. 43 — 45
  18. 46 — 48
  19. 49 — 51
  20. 52 — 54
  21. 55 — 57
  22. 58 — 60
  23. 61 — 63
  24. 64 — 66
  25. 67 — 69
  26. 70 — 72
  27. 73 — 75
  28. 76 — 78
  29. 79 — 81
  30. 82 — 84
  31. 85 — 87
  32. 88 — 90
  33. 91 — 93
  34. 94 — 96
  35. 97 — 99
  36. 100 — 102
  37. 103 — 105
  38. 106 — 108
  39. 109 — 111
  40. 112 — 114
  41. 115 — 117
  42. 118 — 120
  43. 121 — 123
  44. 124 — 126
  45. 127 — 129
  46. 130 — 132
  47. 133 — 135
  48. 136 — 138
  49. 139 — 141
  50. 142 — 144
  51. 145 — 147
  52. 148 — 150
  53. 151 — 153
  54. 154
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SHAKE-SPEARES

¶To base of thee to be remembred, 
¶_The worth of that,_is that which it containes, 
¶And that is this, and this with thee remaines. 

111075

¶SO are you to my thoughts as food to life, 
¶Or as sweet season'd shewers are to the ground; 
¶And for the peace of you I hold such strife, 
¶As twixt a miser and his wealth is found. 
1115Now proud as an inioyer,_and anon 
¶Doubting the filching age will steale his treasure, 
¶Now counting best to be with you alone, 
¶Then betterd that the world may see my pleasure, 
¶Some-time all ful with feasting on your sight, 
1120And by and by cleane starued for a looke, 
¶Possessing or pursuing no delight 
¶Saue what is had,_or must from you be tooke. 
¶_Thus do I pine and surfet day by day, 
¶Or gluttoning on all,_or all away, 

112576

¶VVHy is my verse so barren of new pride?

¶So far from variation or quicke change? 
¶Why with the time do I not glance aside 
¶To new found methods,_and to compounds strange?

1130Why write I still all one,_euer the same, 
¶And keepe inuention in a noted weed, 
¶That euery word doth almost fel my name, 
¶Shewing their birth,_and where they did proceed proceed

¶O know sweet loue I alwaies write of you, 
1135And you and loue are still my argument: 
¶So all my best is dressing old words new, 
¶Spending againe what is already spent: 
¶_For as the Sun is daily new and old, 
¶So is my loue still telling what is told, 

114077

¶THy glasse will shew thee how thy beauties were, 
¶Thy dyall how thy pretious mynuits waste, 
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