Originally Posted by
mike thomas
Hi all. This is driving me crazy:
Ref Shakepeare's Sonnet 17:
It begins with a question, and the line has a question mark, but it seems to me that there is at least one more question, less a question mark:
Who will beleeue my verse in time to come
If it were fild with your most high deserts?
* no problem up to here - a question and mark.
Though yet heauen knowes it is but as a tombe
Which hides your life, and shewes not halfe your parts:
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say this Poet lies,
Such heauenly touches nere toucht earthly faces.
* no problem up to here, and no questions.
So should my papers (yellowed with their age)
Be scorn’d, like old men of lesse truth then tongue,
**question?
And your true rights be termd a Poets rage,
And stretched miter of an Antique song.
* another question?
But were some childe of yours aliue that time,
You should liue twise in it, and in my rime.
This sonnet reminds me of the Dedication page which reads in a
similar way.
Anyone any ideas?
Regards.