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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 136
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 136Sonnet 136
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Synopsis:
In this second sonnet built around wordplay on the word will, the poet continues to plead for a place among the mistress’s lovers.
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there.
4Thus far for love my love-suit, sweet, fulfill.
Will will fulfill the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
8Among a number one is reckoned none.
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store’s account I one must be.
For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
12That nothing me, a something, sweet, to thee.
Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
And then thou lovest me, for my name is Will.