...inferiority of actors; he confesses having made himself 'a motley to the view', and arraigns Fortune That did not better for my life provide Than public...Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And ahnost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. But such passing moods...

...cielo, accoglimi tu benevolmente al tuo puro, amorosissimo seno. O for my sake do you with Portune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That...breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, 5 And cdmost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it workjs in, life the dyer's hand: Pity me then,...

..."secondary" or "extra" theatrical meaning of sonnet 1 10 becomes even more primary: O for my sake do you wish fortune chide. The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds....name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (Son. Ill, 1-7) Now instead of referring to some...

...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...name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me, then, and wish I were renew'd; Whilst,...

...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...provide Than public means which public manners breeds. 5 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it...

...of the ignominy of writing for the public stage) have encouraged the plausibility of this view: Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (1-7) 8 See, for example, Nancy Lindheim, 'The Shakespearean Venus and Adonis', Shakespeare...

...dyer's hand'. 1 And how is it with ordinary men? Every one knows that the 1 Shakespeare, Sonnet i11. O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...provide Than public means which public manners breeds, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand class to which he...

...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like...

...the author transpires. In sonnet HI, for example, the goddess of fortune is to be eluded That [she] did not better for my life provide Than public means...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued By what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (3-7) Inside the Sonnets these details are opaque....

...the theatre, which brands his name like an infection.1" Here is the relevant portion of Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...breeds; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand. The branded name is a "strong infection." Davies wrote as if to console Shakespeare for his hard fortune,...