...in the first quartet of sonnet 1 10, where the poet says he has "made myself a motley to the view": Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view. Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections...

...sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my Rose; in it thou art my all. 110 Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a modey to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections...

...all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou my Rose; in it thou art my all. Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections...

...social stigma attached to the trade of acting: 'Thence comes it mat my name receives a brand' (111); 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there / And made myself a modey to the view' (110) - 'modey' is a technical term for the dress of the stage Fool. What is the...

...unperfect actor on the stage'. In Sonnet 1 10 freely he acknowledges his life as an actor with the words: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear . . . So for Shakespeare...

...chosen profession ('And almost thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'), so occasionally he could associate music with the subversively importunate claims...

...creative spirit in the world acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible...

...sulaert to trial', with a suggestinn of deliherately impusing hardship il heaven is monusyllahic. II0 Alas 'tis true, i have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored my own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affertions...

...faithful) to one to whom one has said: 'I am not true.' In Shakespeare, for example, Sonnet 1 10 begins, 'Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view', and ends, 'Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best / Even to thy pure and...

...doing? Clearly, we must suppose him to have been acting and composing plays. So we follow on with: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections...