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SONNET 106.

Line 4.

"Fit for such ladies and such lovely knights."-Fairy Queen.

Lines 9, 10.

"Miracle of the world, I never will deny

That former poets praise the beauty of their days;
But all those beauties were but figures of thy praise,
And all those poets did of thee but prophecy."

Constable's Diana.

SONNET 107.

Lines 5 to 8.)

"Alack! our terrene moon

Is now eclipsed, and it portends alone
The fall of Antony."-Antony and Cleopatra.

Lines 5 to 14.

"Pembroke to court (to which thou wert made strange);
Go, do thy homage to thy sovereign;

Weep and rejoice for this sad joyful change,

Then weep for joy, thou need'st not tears to feign,

Such late thine eyes did naught else entertain,

If I mistake thee not; and thy best part,

Thy virtues, will thy liege's favour gain,
For virtue virtue loves, as art doth art,
Then will he love thee, loved for thy desert."

Davies' Microcosmos, 1603.

SONNET 108.

Lines 1 to 4.

"What can I write that hath not yet been said?
What have I said that others have not affirmed?
What is approved that ought to be assayed?
Or what is vowed that shall not be performed?"

Paradise of Dainty Devices.

"What should I say?—what yet remains to do?"-Drayton's Sonnets.

Lines 8, 9.

"With ditties so sensibly expressing Amphialus' case that every word seemed to be but a diversifying of the name of Amphialus.”—Sidney's Arcadia.

SONNET 109.
Lines 1 to 5.

'Friendships are marriages of the soul, and of fortunes and interests and counsels.--Jeremy Taylor's Measures of Friendship.

Lines 1 to 6.

"For when men have contracted friendship, and espoused their souls and minds to one another, there arises a new relation between them, for in this close and new relation men give each other a property in themselves." Whole Duty of Man.

SONNET 110.

Lines 1 to 4.

Shakespeare, in 1603, condescended to grace with his presence the "Sejanus" of Jonson, upon its first appearance upon the stage. This was at the Globe, to which Shakespeare belonged, by this our poet seemed desirous to give his rival a fair chance of applause; but on this occasion, in spite of even Shakespeare's presence, more murmurs than plaudits were raised. It is remarkable that Drayton, in his 47th Sonnet, makes direct allusion to the Globe Playhouse, "the proud round," where he sat, as he himself says, an envious observer of other's fame; but Shakespeare, who could have made triumphal allusion to it, is silent.

SONNET 111.

Lines 1 to 4.

"Players, I love ye, and your quality,

As ye are men that pass time not abused;

And [W.S. R.B.] some I love for painting poesy,
And say fell fortune cannot be excused

That hath for better uses you refused

Wit, courage, good shape, and all good,

So long as all these goods are no worse used:

And though the stage doth stain pure gentle blood,

Yet generous ye are in mind and mood.”

On Shakespeare and Richard Burtage-J. Davies' Microcosmus, 1603.

SONNET 112.

Lines 1 to 12.

"The censure of which one must in your allowance outweigh an whole theatre of others."-Hamlet.

Lines 1 to 12.

"In so thick and dark an ignorance as now almost covers the age, I crave leave to stand near your light, and by that light to be read."—Jonson's Dedication of Catiline to Lord Pembroke, 1616.

"None can move

Shakespeare out of Adonis' grove,
There sullenly he sits."-Davenport, 1650.
Lines 5 to 14.

"I, from the blind and faithless world aloof,
Nor fear its envy nor desire its praise,

But choose my path through solitary ways."

M. Angelo, Sonnet.

SONNET 113.

Line 14.

"It is mine (my eyne ?) or Valentine's praise."

Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Lines 1 to 14.

"My love talked with rocks and trees ;
He finds on misty mountain ground
His own sweet shadow glory crown'd,
He sees himself in all he sees."-In Memoriam.

SONNET 114.
Lines 1 to 4.

"Mine eye too great a flattery for my mind."-Twelfth Night.

Line 6.

"A sompnour was with us in that place,
That hadde a fire-red cherubinne face?"

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales.

"Nos grands.docteurs au cherubin visage."

Old French Ep.

SONNET 116.

Lines 1 to 14.

"The love of men to women is a thing common and of course, but the friendship of man to man infinite and immortal."-Allot's Wit's Commonwealth, 1598.

SONNET 117.

Lines 1 to 4.

"There belongs to this religion of friendship certain due rites and decent ceremonies, as visits, messages, missives, &c.-Howel's Familiar Letters.

Line 5.

"Garrick, who long was married to the town,
At length a fashionable husband grown,

Forsakes his spouse: base man! for, truth to tell,
She loved her own dear Davy wondrous well."

Prologue to the Contract. Foote, 1776.

Lines 1 to 14.

"All thy vexations

Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
Hast strangely stood the test."-Tempest.

SONNET 118.

Lines 1 to 14.

"Cordials of pity give me now,

For I too weak for purgings strow."-Cowley's Mistress.

Lines 1 to 8.

"Surfeit is the father of much fast."-Measure for Measure.

SONNET 119.
Lines 1, 2.

"This Troilus in teares 'gan distill

As licour out of Allambike full fast."

Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, v. 432.

Line 7.

"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from earth to heaven.”

Line 10.

Midsummer Night's Dream.

"Sweet are the uses of adversity."—As You Like it.

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SONNET 121.
Lines 1 to 6.

"Friendship is a divine excellency wrapt up in a common name, and nothing less than the uttermost perfection of flesh and blood for wisdom and virtue can entitle a man to the character of a true friend."-Sir R. L'Estrange.

Line 9.

"I care not so much what I am with others as I respect what I am with myself."-Montaigne's Essays, 1603.

Lines 1 to 4.

"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”—Hamlet.

SONNET 123.

Lines 1 to 4.

"My happy verse,

The strong built trophies of her living fame.”

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Lines 2, 3.

Drayton's Sonnets.

Ev'ry song shall be

A pyramid built to thy memory."

W. Brown to Lord Pembroke, 1613.

SONNET 124.

Lines 13, 14.

They hate for ever, who have lov'd for hours."

W. A. Earl of Stirling.

SONNET 125.

Lines 1,

2.

"When my outward actions doth demonstrate

The native act and figure of my heart,
In complement extern."-Othello.

SONNET 126.

Lines 5, 6.

"This good being done,

The hand could pluck her back that shov'd her on."

Lines 11, 12.

Antony and Cleopatra.

"Nature that made thee with herself at strife,

Saith that the world hath ending with thy life."

Venus and Adonis.

"Shakespeare with whom

Quick nature died.”—Monumental Epitaph.

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