Notes for Shakespeare's Sonnet 55


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1. gilded: overlaid with a thin coating of gold.

4. besmear'd with sluttish time: i.e., smeared with the dirtiness or griminess caused by the passage of time.

6. broils: battles.

7. Mars: Roman god of war.

13. till the judgment that yourself arise: until God's last judgment when you yourself shall ascend to heaven.