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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.
Poore soule, the center of my sinfull earth,
My sinfull earth these rebell powers that thee aray, Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls in costly gay? Why so large cost having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall wormes in heritors of this excesse, Eate up thy charge? is this thy bodies end? Then soule live thou upon thy servants losse, And let that pine to aggrivate thy store, Buy tearmes divine in selling houres of drosse: VVithin be fed, without be rich no more. So shalt thou feed on death, that feedes on men, And death once dead, ther's no more dying then.
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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