Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 84 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 84 |
1 Who is it that says most? which can say more 2 Than this rich praise, that you alone are you? 3 In whose confine immured is the store 4 Which should example where your equal grew. 5 Lean penury within that pen doth dwell 6 That to his subject lends not some small glory; 7 But he that writes of you, if he can tell 8 That you are you, so dignifies his story, 9 Let him but copy what in you is writ, 10 Not making worse what nature made so clear, 11 And such a counterpart shall fame his wit, 12 Making his style admired every where. 13 You to your beauteous blessings add a curse, 14 Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse. |
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