Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation. It's still me in this video! You saw me shave my beard off in the last sonnet, I got a haircut the next day too. Sonnets 88-90 all ponder the Fair Youth's love turning to hate, and can be performed together.
Sonnet 89 - • Shakespeare Locked Dow...
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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. 88 down 66 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 88 full text:
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side against myself I'll fight
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.
With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults concealed wherein I am attained,
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory.
And I by this will be a gainer too,
For, bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The injuries that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
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