Notes for Shakespeare's Sonnet 62


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8. surmount: surpass.

9. glass: mirror.  indeed: i.e., as I really am.

10. beated and chopp'd: beaten and battered.   tann'd antiquity: dried (like tanned leather) and darkened with age.

12. iniquity: wickedness; sin.

13. 'Tis thee, myself: —Here the poet addresses his beloved as his other self.