CIII

Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having

CXXXIV



So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,

And I my self am mortgag'd to thy will,

Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine

Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:

But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,

For thou art covetous, and he is kind;

He learn'd but surety-like to write for me,

Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.

The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,

Thou usurer, that putt'st forth all to use,

And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;

So him I lose through my unkind abuse.

  Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:

  He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.

 	--William Shakespeare

XXXV



No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,

And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

All men make faults, and even I in this,

Authorizing thy trespass with compare,

Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,

Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;

For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,--

Thy adverse party is thy advocate,--

And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:

Such civil war is in my love and hate,

  That I an accessary needs must be,

  To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.

 	--William Shakespeare

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A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-08-02 14:30
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-12-02 15:18
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-15-02 13:52
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-18-02 11:36
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-18-02 14:27
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-19-02 10:17
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-19-02 15:41
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-20-02 10:25
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-20-02 12:11
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-20-02 14:58
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-20-02 15:39
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-21-02 07:27
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-21-02 12:22
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-21-02 15:05
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-21-02 16:08
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-22-02 08:44
Howling at the Moon - for Faith ,Part 2  new	sheepdog	03-22-02 12:59
LXXXV My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, Whil  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 23:51
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. --Albert Eins  new	Shakespeare	09-10-05 10:32
Love: St. Augustine Quotes He who is filled with love is filled w  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-11-05 20:07
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-22-02 15:07
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-23-02 07:59
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-25-02 10:52
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-25-02 11:24
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-25-02 11:39
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	03-25-02 14:28
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	03-26-02 10:12
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	I could use your help	03-28-02 10:40
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-01-02 10:53
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	04-01-02 12:16
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Sbailey	04-04-02 12:57
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-05-02 14:07
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Faith Rusca	04-05-02 15:26
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-07-02 12:13
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Florian	04-08-02 10:18
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-09-02 08:48
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Florian	04-24-02 16:05
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-25-02 14:45
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Florian	04-25-02 16:51
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, -that is all Ye know on earth,  new	Shakespeare	09-02-05 05:41
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to e  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-05-05 18:41
A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce 1842-191  new	Shakespeare	09-06-05 09:00
CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Ti  new	Shakespeare	09-07-05 10:17
Beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence retur  new	Hamlet	09-08-05 06:48
yellow pages main<a href='http://www.dirfor.com'  new	yellow pages main	09-22-05 18:02
A man's got to know his limitations. John Milius   new	Henry David Thoreau	09-22-05 18:02
Founding Fathers Quotes All good men wish the entire abolition  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 20:44
And we must think no further of you. T. S. Eliot  new	Shakespeare	09-09-05 19:51
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the  new	Shakespeare	09-01-05 11:54
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integra  new	Shakespeare	09-05-05 18:53
Founding Fathers Quotes An unlimited power to tax involves, ne  new	Shakespeare	09-06-05 09:16
I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby b  new	Shakespeare	09-07-05 10:30
Love: St. Augustine Quotes Love is the beauty of the soul.  new	Shakespeare	09-07-05 23:08
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. --Albert Eins  new	Shakespeare	09-09-05 19:52
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. --Albert Ei  new	Shakespeare	09-11-05 15:23
In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot  new	Shakespeare	09-12-05 10:28
XXXVII As a decrepit father takes delight To see his activ  new	Shakespeare	09-13-05 15:39
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Florian	04-08-02 10:12
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-09-02 08:53
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Sbailey	04-09-02 13:38
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-09-02 14:15
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Sbailey	04-10-02 14:02
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-11-02 07:29
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say wh  new	Shakespeare	09-01-05 09:07
LXXXVIII When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light, And  new	Shakespeare	09-06-05 23:13
Love: St. Augustine Quotes He who is filled with love is filled w  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 19:08
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . it has  new	Shakespeare	09-10-05 14:02
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. W. H. Aud  new	Shakespeare	09-11-05 12:50
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	Florian	04-24-02 16:23
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-25-02 07:49
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	sheepdog	04-25-02 12:41
Re: A Faithful Translation of confessions  new	amanda	09-17-04 12:49
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will  new	Shakespeare	09-05-05 21:20
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -  new	Shakespeare	09-06-05 12:15
@!#$  new	@!#$	09-08-05 09:52
The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Henry David Thoreau	09-21-05 00:23
CVI When in the chronicle of wasted time I see description  new	Shakespeare	08-05-05 04:57
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy  new	Shakespeare	08-07-05 02:58
LXXXVIII When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light, And  new	Shakespeare	08-12-05 10:58
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we l  new	Shakespeare	08-17-05 00:42
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; h  new	Hamlet	08-18-05 14:03
Founding Fathers Quotes Every person seems to acknowledge his  new	Shakespeare	08-19-05 00:11
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fac  new	Shakespeare	08-19-05 17:31
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eli  new	Shakespeare	08-20-05 19:09
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind. -John Dry  new	Shakespeare	08-22-05 12:01
LVI Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Thy edge s  new	Shakespeare	08-22-05 23:01
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. --Alber  new	Shakespeare	08-24-05 11:53
XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see  new	Shakespeare	08-25-05 09:30
XCVI Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; Some sa  new	Hamlet	08-26-05 15:13
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot  new	Shakespeare	08-28-05 20:17
XLVI Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide  new	Shakespeare	08-29-05 12:03
Founding Fathers Quotes An honorable Peace is and always was m  new	Shakespeare	08-30-05 00:42
LXXXVI Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Boun  new	Shakespeare	09-04-05 02:49
Hitch your wagon to a star. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	09-05-05 17:08
slot machines  new	slot machines	09-10-05 04:26
LXXII O! lest the world should task you to recite What mer  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-11-05 13:09
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-18-05 06:33
CXXXIV So, now I have confess'd that he is thine, And I m  new	Shakespeare	09-01-05 17:13
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 01:33
loans  new	loans	09-09-05 15:35
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes b  new	Shakespeare	09-12-05 14:30
XXIV Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,   new	Shakespeare	09-06-05 12:40
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. -Edmund Bu  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-04-05 06:49
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done  new	Shakespeare	09-10-05 21:01
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caugh  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 20:07
CXLIX Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not, When I aga  new	Shakespeare	09-10-05 16:13
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-11-05 14:13
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-05-05 02:40
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-05-05 02:41
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy  new	Hamlet	09-08-05 10:39
texas hold em  new	texas hold em	09-08-05 23:35
I believe in God like I believe in the sun rise. Not because I ca  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-05-05 18:54
CXXXIII Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan Fo  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 20:53
CIII Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth, That having  new	Shakespeare	09-09-05 19:53
LXXXI Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive  new	Shakespeare	09-12-05 10:26
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-14-05 02:01
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathologi  new	Hamlet	09-05-05 19:30
The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	09-06-05 10:07
CXII Your love and pity doth the impression fill, Which vu  new	Shakespeare	09-08-05 21:25
gambling  new	gambling	09-09-05 20:15
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of  new	Shakespeare	09-10-05 07:07
Time hasn't stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any other m  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-11-05 16:12
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how  new	Shakespeare	09-12-05 11:02

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