...hand defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have...thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep t<5 have that which it fears to lose. W. Shakespeare rv 2 SINCE brass, nor stone.nor earth, nor boundless...

...lofty towers I see downra1ed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the bungry ocean Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm...state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thas to ruminate — That Time will come and take my Love away : — This thought is as a death, which...

...beauty shall in these black lines be seen ; And they shall live, and he in them still green. LX1V. 113. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud...away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose Bui weep to have that which it fears to lose LXV. 114. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless...

...without a just settlement. SONNET 64. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd, The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. He assigns other reasons in this stanza for his fears concerning the perpetuity of the dramas. The...

...hand defaced The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. O INCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How...

...without a just settlement. SONNET 64. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd, The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers...state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught Mo thns to ruminate, That Time will come and take My Love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot...

...seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the water)- main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. K TIME AND LOVE OINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways...

...Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store witli loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange...hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come anil take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot 'choose But weep to have that which...

...with store: When I have scon such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay , Kuin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That time will come,...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. (64) Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, iior boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power,...

...the land in Sonnet 64 and 2 Henry IV. iii. 1. 45 fol. are strikingly similar. The former reads thus : When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. King Henry exclaims : O God 1 that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times...