• Shakespeare's Sonnet 74

  • Sep 22 2024
  • Length: 19 mins
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 74

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  • Shakespeare tells his lover not worry when he dies because he will always have his poetry to remember him by.


    Our story continues with Shakespeare getting into another dilemma on his way back to England.


    Sonnet 74

    But be contented when that fell arrest
    Without all bail shall carry me away,
    My life hath in this line some interest,
    Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
    When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
    The very part was consecrate to thee:
    The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
    My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
    So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
    The prey of worms, my body being dead;
    The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
    Too base of thee to be remembered.
    The worth of that is that which it contains,
    And that is this, and this with thee remains.
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