...unperfect actor on the stage'. In Sonnet 1 10 freely he acknowledges his life as an actor with the words: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made...Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear . . . So for Shakespeare to have been able to develop any sort of relationship at such a high level...

...good of him: Alas ! 'tis true, I have gone here and there. And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made...offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have looked on truth O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That...

...is at once social and sexual.48 The speaker of Sonnet 1 10, in turn, laments having "made my selfe a motley to the view, / Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most deare" (lines 2-3). The speaker of Sonnet 1 1 1 complains that his "name receives a brand, / And almost...

...gone 'here and there' in miserable, compromising journeys, made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made...offences of affections new. Most true it is that I have looked on truth Askance and strangely. The public stage even now colours him like a dye: 'my name receives...

...chosen profession ('And almost thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'), so occasionally he could associate music with the subversively importunate claims of the sensual appetite....

...creative spirit in the world acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase, who...

...doing? Clearly, we must suppose him to have been acting and composing plays. So we follow on with: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made...offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have loolc'd on truth Askance and strangely . . . (no) Tucker and Hotson (Shakespeare's Mot/ey, 1952) deny...

...sulaert to trial', with a suggestinn of deliherately impusing hardship il heaven is monusyllahic. II0 Alas 'tis true, i have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored my own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affertions new. Most true...

...faithful) to one to whom one has said: 'I am not true.' In Shakespeare, for example, Sonnet 1 10 begins, 'Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view', and ends, 'Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best / Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.'...

...by clowns: At the party he wore motley. Old-time fools and jesters wore motley. 3 a jester; fool: / have gone here and there and made myself a motley to the view (Shakespeare) 4 a woolen fabric of mixed colors, used for clothing from the 1300's to 1600's, especially...