...keep so chary As tender nurse her babe from faring ill. Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain ; As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear...own heart ; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say 5 The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's strength seem to decay, O'ercharged with...

...mine is slain. — Meaning, possibly, slain by thy present course of conduct. XXIII. As an imperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides...-rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart ; 4 So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's...

...Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain ; [again. Thou gav'st me thine, not to give back XXIII. As an unperfect actor on the stage. Who with his fear...part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, ' [own heart ; Whose strength's abundance weakens his So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect...

...23. 1585. Summer.] To Mr WH Shakespeare' 's looks must say what he cannot bring his tongue to speak, As an unperfect actor on the stage Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage Whose strength's abundance weakens...

...thine, not to give back again. As an nnperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much...rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart ; 80 I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's...

...existe una pausa después del octavo verso. En los ejemplos siguientes figuran dos tipos distintos: As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens...

...role and troubled by himself and the world, and all for fear of trust — of himself or of others. So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite . . . The rival poet is in the twelfth line, "More than that tongue that more hath more express'd"...

...when the powerful come near. Shakespeare casts such nervousness in terms of stage fright in Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part So I for fear to trust forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's strength...

...affidamento sul tuo cuore quando il mio sia estinto: tu mi desti il tuo per non più averlo indietro. As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear...thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundancc wea\ens his own heart; So / for fear of trust, forget to say, 5 The perfect ceremony of love's...

...immediately evokes the theatrical context, and "the theme of eloquentia runs through the sonnet":54 As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens...