 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better 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...  Works - Page 478by William Shakespeare - 1874Full view - About this book
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...the author transpires. In sonnet HI, for example, the goddess of fortune is to be eluded That [she] did not better for my life provide Than public means...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued By what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (3-7) Inside the Sonnets these details are opaque.... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...the theatre, which brands his name like an infection.1" Here is the relevant portion of Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...breeds; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand. The branded name is a "strong infection." Davies wrote as if to console Shakespeare for his hard fortune,... | |
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