...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...is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. (Son. 110, 1-4) In 1811 Charles Lamb claimed that Shakespeare here "alludes to his profession as a...

...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...offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have lookt on truth Askance and strangely: but, by all above, These blenches gave my heart another youth,...

...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...is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. 5 Most true it is that I have looked on truth Askance and strangely. But, by all above, These blenches...

...What was his attitude to the business of being a playwright? Two of the sonnets, 110 with its lament, "I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view" (1-2), and 111 with its complaint about depending on "public means which public manners breeds"(4),...

...what is true of another student of human nature and its fortunes, the dramatist, holds good of him: Alas ! 'tis true, I have gone here and there. And...affections new; Most true it is that I have looked on truth O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better...

...an offense that is at once social and sexual.19 The speaker of sonnet 1 10, in turn, laments having "made myself a motley to the view, / Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear" (2-3). The speaker of sonnet 1 1 1 complains that his "name receives a brand, / And almost thence my...

...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 to have been able to...

...and defects in his own behaviour. He has gone 'here and there' in miserable, compromising journeys, made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts,...that I have looked on truth Askance and strangely. The public stage even now colours him like a dye: 'my name receives a brand', he declares, And almost...

...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 of the sensual appetite....

...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...mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase, who 'gored his own thoughts' to wring shillings from the pockets...