...Then, give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure, and most most loving breast. CXI. 0 ! for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst,...

...be deaf. 1 2 dispense - get rid of. 1 3 purpose - endeavours, artistic achievement, or intentions. O, for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...provide Than public means which public manners breeds. 5 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it...

...of the ignominy of writing for the public stage) have encouraged the plausibility of this view: Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (1-7) 8 See, for example, Nancy Lindheim, 'The Shakespearean...

...which the poet seems to be talking about himself as playwright when he complains that Fortune . . . did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds and goes on to confess that . . . almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the...

...dyer's hand'. 1 And how is it with ordinary men? Every one knows that the 1 Shakespeare, Sonnet i11. O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...provide Than public means which public manners breeds, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand class to which he...

...(3.4.27-8). t06 breach opening, gap. The word's sound anticipates 'breeched' (t09). t08 Steeped Dyed. See 'Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, /...almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand' (Sonnet ttt.5-7). t08 colours of their trade identifying marks of their occupation....

...o'er read," he writes in a sonnet, secure of his future fame ; and then, in the very next : — " Oh for my sake do you with fortune chide The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, Tluit did not liettcr for my life provide Than public means, which public manners breeds. And almost...

...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will...

...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide. The guilty goddess of my haimfiil deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds....

...the mere sensation of having been near her, he himself could hardly have determined. CHAPTER IV Oh, for my sake, do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deed That did not better for my life provide. Now commenced a period during which Egbert Mayne's emotions...