Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation. It's been a long pandemic... I think that condom is probably out of date 😳
This is the last of two sonnets where Shakespeare admits to, and tries to justify his infidelities to the Fair Youth. Sonnets 109-110 can be performed as a pair.
Sonnnet 109 - • Understand Shakespeare...
As I'm in lockdown, I'm using this time to learn all of Shakespeare's sonnets. I hope you find the modern translation afterwards entertaining. 110 down 44 to go!
This poem is both part of the Fair Youth Sonnets & part of the sequence from 87-126 known as the Fickle Youth Sonnets.
Sonnet 110 full text:
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 new.
Most true it is that I have looked on truth
Askance and strangely; but, by all above,
These blenches gave my heart another youth,
And worse essays proved thee my best of love.
Now all is done, have what shall have no end;
Mine appetite I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confined.
Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,
Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.
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