Notes for Shakespeare's Sonnet 76


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1. pride: ornament.

2. quick change: facile innovation.

3. time: i.e., the way of the world; fashion.

4. compounds: [literary] mixtures.   strange: new, innovative.

5. still: always.

6. invention: imagination or poetic creation.  noted weed: i.e., familiar clothing.

7. That every word doth almost tell my name: i.e., so that almost every word announces that it is my poetry.

8. where: whence.

10. argument: theme.