...mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when...love as rare As any she belied with false compare. RICHARD HARNHELD, Poems: In Divers Humors, 1 598. SONNET: IN PRAISE OF MUSIC AND POETRY. IF music and...

...mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 10 T grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when...love as rare As any she belied with false compare. RICHARD BARNFIELD, Poems: In Divers Humors, 1598. SONNET: IN PRAISE OF MUSIC AND POETRY! IF music and...

...like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts arc dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....rare As any she, belied with false compare. CXXXI. For well thou know'st, to my dear, doting heart, Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel. Yet,...

...this the world well knows ; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...love as rare As any she belied with false compare. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel ; For well thou...

...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask' d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;...love as rare As any she belied with false compare. THOU art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel ; For well thou...

...seems, however, to be mainly a satire upon the conventional similes employed by bad poets : — " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...love as rare As any she belied with false compare." Still more interesting is Sonnet cxli., where the poet, oddly enough, declares himself dissatisfied...

...If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; [head. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no...art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel ; I heart For well thou know'st to my dear doting Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel. Yet,...

...white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. * Sonnet LXXVIII. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no...love as rare As any she belied with false compare. Whether this sonnet is Shakespeare's or no, certainly in days when he dined, and wrote plays, he dedicated...

...wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in lier cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight...yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she bely'd with false compare. CXXX. Though the poet knows that his mistress is deficient in the several...

...Mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That Music hath a far more pleasing sound: 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My Mistress when...love as rare As any she belied with false compare. line 10. Here again we become suspicious about Shakespeare's love of music. He is not discriminating....