Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted.

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Title
Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted.
Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Publication
At London :: By G. Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be solde by Iohn Wright, dwelling at Christ Church gate,
1609.
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"Shake-speares sonnets Neuer before imprinted." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.

Pages

86 (Book 86)

WAs it the proud full saile of his great verse, Bound for the prize of (all to precious) you, That did my ripe thoughts in my braine inhearce, Making their tombe the wombe wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write, Aboue a mortall pitch, that struck me dead? No, neither he, nor his compiers by night Giuing him ayde, my verse astonished. He nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors of my silence cannot boast,

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I was not sick of any feare from thence. But when your countinance fild vp his line, Then lackt I matter, that infeebled mine.
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