...the tone of a deep and real sentiment, he seriously rued the orgies in which he had participated. " O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners...

...the poet's own touching testimony : Oh ! for my sake do you with fortune chide The guilty goddesa of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than puttie means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost...

...object to, but is not really so. On comparing Sonnet 111, where he calls Fortune " The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life...provide Than public means which public manners breeds," it is clear that the harmful deeds are merely the connection with the public theatre, and that the...

...lyrical self-com munings:— ' Oh ! for ray sake do you with fortune chiile, The guilty goddess of ray harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breed*. ' Thence comes it that my name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature is subdued To...

...reference to the same topic : — " Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public moans, which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence...

...where they grew." (a summer's story is a story suitable to summer; as a winter's tale.) cxi., — " O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds." Eomeo and Juliet, iii. 1, — " Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth...

...alludes to his profession as a player:Oh for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds Thence comes it that my name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature is subdued...

...confined. Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. 111 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners...

...be deaf. 1 2 dispense - get rid of. 1 3 purpose - endeavours, artistic achievement, or intentions. O, for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners...

...which the poet seems to be talking about himself as playwright when he complains that Fortune . . . did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds and goes on to confess that . . . almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the...