Margaret Demorest Sonnet Annotations: Sonnets 137 and 138
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Title
Margaret Demorest Sonnet Annotations: Sonnets 137 and 138
Date Created
1968
Subject
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sonnets; Sonnets, English -- History and criticism
Description
The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in February of 2024.
SONNET 137
1597 – Parl (Oct) – Fr. Bacon spoke strongly on enclosures: Intro, 2 bills passed, Famine prompted
St calls Mary the anchor of Papists
Wyatt: “Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever, / Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more– (ends)...Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb[.”] includes “liberty is lever”
Prob fight over enclosure
Plot is laid for my life?
Letters forged acc to Essex
SONNET 138
Nothing here says she is young
Could be Bacon spkg
Raleigh has poem Hist which says, Death cover over all great + pride, cruelty _ ambition of men with 2 narrow words– “His jacet” [Quotation from Walter Raleigh’s “The History of the World: In Five Books.” “Hic jacet” is Latin for “here lies,” and was often inscribed on gravestones.]
The Truth: Recog + accept. of false
SONNET 137
1597 – Parl (Oct) – Fr. Bacon spoke strongly on enclosures: Intro, 2 bills passed, Famine prompted
St calls Mary the anchor of Papists
Wyatt: “Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever, / Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more– (ends)...Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb[.”] includes “liberty is lever”
Prob fight over enclosure
Plot is laid for my life?
Letters forged acc to Essex
SONNET 138
Nothing here says she is young
Could be Bacon spkg
Raleigh has poem Hist which says, Death cover over all great + pride, cruelty _ ambition of men with 2 narrow words– “His jacet” [Quotation from Walter Raleigh’s “The History of the World: In Five Books.” “Hic jacet” is Latin for “here lies,” and was often inscribed on gravestones.]
The Truth: Recog + accept. of false
Type
Text
Creator
Demorest, Margaret; Shakespeare, William
Language
ENG, LAT
Is Part Of
Margaret Demorest Papers, CCA 10.2011.01 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections.
Identifier
CCA 10.2011.01_Demorest_Sonnets_137_138
Format
PDF
Original Format
Written Annotations
Citation
Demorest, Margaret; Shakespeare, William, “Margaret Demorest Sonnet Annotations: Sonnets 137 and 138,” Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center Digital Collections, accessed August 19, 2025, https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/items/show/9647.