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Project Gutenberg's Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost, by Gregory Thornton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost Author: Gregory Thornton Illustrator: Willem Blaeu Release Date: July 6, 2008 [EBook #25979] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE'S GHOST *** Produced by K Nordquist, Daniel Watkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost The Words procured by GREGORY THORNTON The Ornaments made by WILLEM BLAEU --- Never before Imprinted --- At Sydney By _Angus & Robertson_, and are to be solde by all booksellers 1920 TO THE ONLIE BEGETTER OF THESE INSUING SONNETS F.M. ALL HAPPINESSE The Spirit of William Shakespeare, sore vexed of them who say that in his Sonnets he writ not from the truth of his heart but from the toyings of his brain, and that he devised but a feigned object to fit a feigned affection, herein maketh answer, renewing as best a shadow may that rhyme wherein he was more excellent in the living body I The wise world saith I not unlock'd my heart When I of thee and thy dear love did write, And would each word of mine to false convert, Doing my simple sense a double spite. It saith thou wert but shadow born of nought, But vain creation of an apish rhyme, While, Fashion's fool, my strain'd invention sought To better them who best did please the time. But wherefore say they so, and do dear wrong To thee, whose worth was my sole argument, To me, whose verse 'twas truth alone made strong By that the breast must feel, not brain invent? They who this doubt never such beauty knew, Nor what to poet love alone can do. II They say a man ne'er bore such love to man, Or, if he did, 'twere but a cause for shame; But, speaking so, they their own mea
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