...addition: And for a woman wert thou first created, Till nature as she wrought thee fell a dotinge, And by addition me of thee defeated, By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. (20.9-12) This is a startling move for post-modern readers who are likely to assume, with Luce Irigaray...

..."not-she." Nature starts out with a female template. She turns female into male by the process of addition: And for a woman wert thou first created, Till nature as she wrought thee fell a dotinge, And by addition me of thee defeated, By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. (20.9-12)...

...added to my person 'one thing' (to his purpose nothing); in a word, my prick: But since she prickt thee out for women's pleasure, Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. Notice, if you please, that he says my penis is no use to him. And know from this that Mr Shakespeare...

...beauty, specifically repudiates any homosexual interest in him, bluntly telling him that Nature: ... by addition me of thee defeated By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. that is, by adding one attribute of no use to Shakespeare, had: prick'd thee out for women's pleasure...

...Attribut hinzufügte, durch das er ihm, dem Dichter, als körperlicher Liebespartner entzogen wurde. And for a Woman wert thou first created, Till Nature...out for women's pleasure, Mine be thy love and thy loves use their treasure. Zur Frau warst du zuerst bestimmt. Doch ward Natur, dich schaffend, durch...

...boy's brains. As the Poet's 'master-mistress', the youth is told he was 'first created' as a woman, Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting, And...defeated By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. Nature in her doting at first shows homoerotic feeling, which perhaps seems natural enough to the author,...

...hues in his controling, 2 ^ Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. And for a woman wen thou first created, Till Nature, as she wrought thee,...fell a-doting, And by addition me of thee defeated 22 By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. 2 ^ But since she pricked thee out 2 * for women's pleasure,...

...hues in his controling,21 Which steals men 's eyes and women 's souls amazetb. And for a woman wen thou first created, Till Nature, as she -wrought thee, fell a-doting, And by addition me of thee defeated12 By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.2^ But since she pricked thee out2* for women's...

...Woolf blames nature for the mixing of sexes and the running of all colors into one, as does the sonnet: "And for a woman wert thou first created; / Till Nature, as she wrought thee fell a-doting" (lines 9-1o). This doting nature is a woman endowed with Miss Marchmont's propensity to lump all together;...

...a penis, thereby frustrating any sexual ambition on the part of the poet. Here are the last lines: And for a woman wert thou first created, Till nature...Mine be thy love, and thy love's use their treasure. Nature, by the way, is here seen, in the primary sense, as a gardener, who takes the young man, as...