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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Tis better to be vile then vile esteemed,
When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others seeing. For why should others false adulterat eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies; Which in their wils count bad what I thinke good? No, I am that I am, and they that levell At my abuses, reckon up their owne, I may be straight though they themselves be bevell By their rancke thoughts, my deeds must not be showne Vnlesse this generall evill they maintaine, All men are bad and in their badnesse raigne.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600]. |
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