...Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee." XXII. CXXVII. 85. t In the old age black was not counted fair, Or, if...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...her treasure; Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...Was she fair or dark, a blonde or a brunette ? Considering what the poet says of his second love, ' In the old age black was not counted fair; Or, if it were, it bore not beauty's name,' it is, perhaps, not an improbable conjecture that Anne Hathaway was fair. But still we have no assured...

...marked that it ought to assure the genuineness of the discovery which completes the thought. SONNET 127. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...treafure : Her audit, though delay'd, anfwer'd muft be, And her quietus is to render thee. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's fucceflive heir, And beauty flander'd with a baftard fhame : For fince each hand hath put on nature's...

...her treasure: Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee. cxxvn. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee.63 XXII. CXXVII. 85. t In the old age black was not counted fair, Or, if...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since eacli hand hath put on nature's...

...pleasure; She may detain, but not still keep her treasure. Her audit, though delayed, answered must be, I n the old age black was not counted fair, Or, if it...bore not beauty's name. But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame; For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...representation: the duplicity and discrepancy, lying and betrayal of poetic representation itself: In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were it bore not beauty's name. (127) Why should my heart think that a several plot, Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?...

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