Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation. If you cheat on me then I get one free pass right?... Right?!
When all my acting work got cancelled in the first lockdown, I decided to use the time to start learning all of Shakespeare's sonnets. I hope you find the modern translation afterwards entertaining. 120 down 34 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. Sonnets 118-120 share the theme of Shakespeare regretting his unfaithfulness to the Fair Youth and can be performed together as a series.
Sonnet 118 - • Understand Shakespeare...
Sonnet 119 - • Sonnet 119 - Understan...
Sonnet 120 full text:
That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow which I then did feel
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken,
As I by yours, y'have passed a hell of time,
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
O that our night of woe might have remembered
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me then, tendered
The humble salve, which wounded bosoms fits!
But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
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