...manual ministrations. It was after this little incident that he wrote sonnet 20, the one that begins A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the Master-Mistress of my passion . . . In it, he goes on to say that I was first created to be a woman, till nature fell a-doting over...

...SONNETS SONNET 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Has thon, the maste?-mistress of?ny passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted...rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;^ 18. In a rare fashion, exceptionally. A man in hue, 20 all hues in his controling, 2 ^ Which steals...

...woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Has thott, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman 's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change,...rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;^ 18. In a rare fashion, exceptionally. A man in hue,20 all hues in his controling,21 Which steals men...

...development. And nowhere is Shakespeare more challenging than in the poem which follows the procreation group: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast...all hues in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. And for a woman wert thou first created. Till nature as she wrought thee...

...radically unstable about the way the sonnets present the relationship between Shakespeare and the youth. 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast...all hues in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. And for a woman wert thou first created, 10 Till Nature as she wrought thee...

...pattern ideal model 20 1 A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, 2 Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted...With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; 5 An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, 6 Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;...

...bevel," but also sonnet 20, notoriously concerned with the natural artifice of the young man's beauty: "A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted, / Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion." 5 To treat the sexual overtones of this sonnet as codes is to read it as a poem whose oblique message...

...the poet's own name. 42 In sonnet 20, the poet's repressed bisexual desire comes out into the open: "A woman's face with nature's own hand painted / Hast Thou, the master-mistress of my passion" (20.1-2). Not only does the poet tie his own name to the presence of bisexuality but he also turns...

...bevel," but also sonnet 20, notoriously concerned with the natural artifice of the young man's beauty: "A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted, / Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion."5 To treat the sexual overtones of this sonnet as codes is to read it as a poem whose oblique...

...the earlier part of the poem shows that he thinks of its owner as of a woman whom he might desire: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast...acquainted With shifting change as is false women's fashion . . . One of the complicating factors in the autobiographical interpretation of the Sonnets is the...