...That every tongue says, beauty should look so. CXXVIII. How oft, when thou, my music,! music play's!, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy...thou gently sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear counfounds, Do I envy those jacks,§ that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, "Whilst...

...extracts may be compared with the following : — " How oft, when tbou, my music, music play'st, &c., Do I envy those jacks, that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand." Sonnet 130. Suf. " She's beautiful ; and therefore to be woo'd ; She is a woman ; therefore to be won."...

...beautiful line which we have marked ! and what a pleasant mixture of tenderness and archness throughout! " How oft when thou, my music, music play'st Upon that...the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips, that should that harvest reap, At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand ! To be so tickled, they...

...That every tongue says, beauty should look so. cxxvm. How oft, when thou, my music, music playest, Upon that blessed wood, whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently swayest The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks, that nimble leap To kiss the...

...woe, That every tongue says, beauty should look so. CXXVIII. How oft, when thou, my musick, musick play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds...concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks, 72 that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, [reap, Whilst my poor lips, which should...

...woe, That every tongue says, beauty should look so. CXXVIII. How oft, when thou, my musick, musick play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds...sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I env/ those jacks,73 that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips, which...

...black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack. ( |32 -) How oft when thou, my Music, music playest Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently swayest The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap To kiss the...

...depicted with truer feeling than in this sonnet. III. TO HIS LADY UPON HER PLAYING ON THE VIRGINALS.1 How oft when thou, my music, music play'st Upon that blessed wood, whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingersj when thou gently sway*st The wiry concord that my ear confounds,) Do I envy those jacks, that...

...the passage before us is elaborated in the Hundred and Twenty -eighth Sonnet : — " How oft, nhen thou, my music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet finger*, when thou gently sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks,...

...must serve as a hint for understanding the 128th Sonnet. 128. How oft, when thou, my Musick, musick play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, &c. In this Sonnet, as elsewhere, the poet shows his desire to penetrate the essence of things, here...