Notes for Shakespeare's Sonnet 91


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3. new-fangled ill: fashionably ugly.

4. horse: horses.

5. humour: temperament.   his: its.   adjunct: attendant; related.

7. measure: i.e., criterion of happiness.

8. better: surpass.

10. prouder: more an object of pride.

12. of all men's pride I boast: I boast of having the equivalent of all other sources of pride put together.