Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 111 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 111 |
1 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, 2 The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, 3 That did not better for my life provide 4 Than public means which public manners breeds. 5 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, 6 And almost thence my nature is subdu'd 7 To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: 8 Pity me then and wish I were renew'd; 9 Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink 10 Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection, 11 No bitterness that I will bitter think, 12 Nor double penance, to correct correction. 13 Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye 14 Even that your pity is enough to cure me. |
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