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SONNET 121. 1-2 "Tis better . . . of being it is better to be truly vile
than to be considered vile unjustly, when one who is not vile receives all
of the reproach due to one who is.
j-4 And the just . . . others’
seeing and that proper pleasure is lost which is considered vile not by
us who experience it but by others who view it from the outside. 5-6
For why . . . sportive blood why should the prurient eyes of others hail
my sexual passion (as akin to their own)? 7 frailties human faults, are
frailer spies are there more faulty observers, 8 in their wills (a) wilfully
(b) according to their own lustful feelings, p am that am what, level
take aim. 10 abuses transgressions. // bevel crooked. 12 rank gross.
reign exercise authority, pass judgment.
sensual.

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i’Tts better to be vile than vile esteemed
^V^en not to be receives reproach of being,
the just pleasure losVwhich is so deemed
others^ seeing.^
QI)^hy should otherrTal^ adulterate/eves
aluiption to my sportive blood?
on my^ailties why are ^iler sp^ie^
ich in theirjwilidcount bad whaC^
am that 1 ^rn; and they that
JVt myab2^ej_x^kp)rTtp-th€irctum
(►'I.may^ei ^aight though they themselves
* By their rank thoughts
Ui(les^hi eneral evitfhey maintai
(All men) are bad and in their badness

122
SONNET 122. r tables notebook. 2 character’d inscribed. j idle rank
empty leaves. 4 Beyond all date longer than time itself. 6 Have faculty
. . . to subsist are permitted by nature to exist. 7 raz'd oblivion oblivion ’
which obliterates all things, his its. 8 miss’d lost, y poor retention
IO tallies sticks on
inadequate container (the leaves of the_ “tables”),
ii-ia to give . . . thee more
which totals were “scored” by notching.
I had the temerity to give them (the “tables”) away so that I could rely*
upon my memory ("those tables”) which is capable of more adequately
recording my love for you. i} adjunct aid, such as a notebook. 14 im^
port imply.

Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character’d with lasting memory.
Which shall above that idle rank remain
Beyond all date, even to eternity;
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist.
Till each to raz’d oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be miss’d.
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score.
\ Therefore to givejhem from me was I bold,
rust thosiCtablesJthat receive thee more,
y keep a.n adjunct to remember thee
ere to import rgetfuliless

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