...me welcome, next my Heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. SONNET CXf. O FOJ my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide, Than public means, which public manner* breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd...

...old offences of affections new: Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth Askance and strangely. " 0, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdn'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. •' Accuse me thus: That I have scanted all Wherein...

...procuring subsistence, may be fairly deduced from the language of his ninety-first sonnet : — " O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost...

...give forth those wonderful creations, with the throes of which his breast was heaving then : — " Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide The guilty Goddess...almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet CO. i Sonnet 111. In this,...

...of appearing on the stage, or writing for the theatre." The passage alluded to is as follows : " O ! for my sake, do you with fortune chide, " The guilty..." That did not better for my life provide, " Than publick means, which publick manners breeds" But is there any thing in these words which, read without...

...degradation by a novel image. " Chide Fortune," cries the bard, — " The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than...almost thence my nature is. subdued To what it works in, LIKE THE DYER'S HAND." Such is the fate of that author, who, in his variety of task-works, blue,...

...done, save what shall have no end, &c." And again in the 1 1 1 th Sonnet : " O for my sake do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish 1 were renew'd ; Whilst,...

...all is done, save what shall have no end, &c." And again in the lllth Sonnet: " O for my sake do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish 1 were renew'd; Whilst, like...

...those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. O FOII my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ; Whilst,...

...more will grind On newer proof, to try an older friend, A God in love, to whom I am connn'd. CXI. O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd; Whilst, like...