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Anybody who has read the sonnets knows that Shakespeare is addressing a young man and urging him to marry and preserve his line: "Die single and thine image dies with thee." But who is the boy? When did Shakespeare write to him? And who are the rival poet and the dark lady who later appear in the sequence? These murky questions have perplexed generations of scholars...
...Verses 43-44: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute...
...Belcher the Ruler said, trouble me not, but begone unto thine own Place; but Asa obeyed...
...adjure thee, respond from thine altars...
...artist really believed in the supremacy of his condition (whose essence is mortality) why would he for a moment go through all the toil of creating an object whose whole intent is to last forever, to be immortal? We find these representative lines in a Shakespearian sonnet: "But thine eternal summer shall not fade/ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st." Shakespeare, were he deferring to nature, would rejoice in the mortality of his beloved. In fact he does something very different: he calls her "eternal...