Notes for Shakespeare's Sonnet 135


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1. Will: This sonnet, 136 and 143 involve elaborate punning on the multiple meanings of Will: wishes, carnal desire, temper, passion, in addition to the poet's name and perhaps another person named Will.

3. still: continually.

13. Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill: Do not kill with unkindness any of your wooers.