...my stain. Never believe, though in my nature reign'd All frailties that beseige all kinds of blood, That it could so preposterously be stain'd To leave...I call, Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all. Epilogue ROSALIND It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome...

...kind and true is all my argument" (CV). [P. 6] Love becomes eternal love, devotion a religion of love: "For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all (CIX). You are my all the world . . . You are so strongly in my purpose bred That all the world besides...

...creative spirit in the world acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase, who...

...reigned All frailties that hestege all kinds of blood, i0 That it could so preposterously he statned, To leave for nothing all thy sum of good: For nothing...wide universe i call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou ari my alL i4 rose] oi itosei 2 motley fooL OED cites this as the first usage of the noun in this sense....

...whole state of existence and to him it is inconceivable that he could ever 'leave for nothing all this sum of good' — For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Sonnet cix, from which these lines are quoted, presents the poet 'like one that travels' bringing 'water...

...eyes are slits and cringing, and we hiss. Scales glitter on our bodies as we fall. (Lowell 1974) 11 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view'. I quote Orwell from 'Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (Kermode 1969: 159). 12 The italicised line parodies...

...faithful) to one to whom one has said: 'I am not true.' In Shakespeare, for example, Sonnet 1 10 begins, 'Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view', and ends, 'Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best / Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.'...

...sweet self grow'st' in Sonnet 126. With 'thou art that all-in-all that I love best' (151/159) compare: For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. (Sonnet 109) Lines start up in Shakespearian rhythm, such as 'Die perjur'd envy, for thy late offence'...

...whole state of existence and to him it is inconceivable that he could ever 'leave for nothing all this sum of good' — For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Sonnet cix, from which these lines are quoted, presents the poet 'like one that travels' bringing 'water...

...thee hast left behind, (ix, 3-6) sometimes the world shrinks to nothingness in comparison with him: For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all. (ax, i3-i4) Such statements bring 'the world' into the sonnetdrama, not as spectator, but as participator....