...might be addressed to any one of his family, or some honoured friend, such as Lord Southampton : — ' O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.' But if from his professional occupation his nature was felt by him to be subdued...

...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will drink...

...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide. The guilty goddess of my haimfiil deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds....

...the mere sensation of having been near her, he himself could hardly have determined. CHAPTER IV Oh, for my sake, do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deed That did not better for my life provide. Now commenced a period during which Egbert Mayne's emotions...

...reproach in his own belying his words. Then he drew his hand quite away from hers, and i subdued in] "And almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand" (Shakespeare: Sonnet in). "I knew you would be angry!" she said with an air of no...

...the theatre, which brands his name like an infection.1" Here is the relevant portion of Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...breeds; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand. The branded name is a "strong infection." Davies wrote as if to console Shakespeare for his hard fortune,...

...with genial hedonism; but, just as he could sometimes express disgust at his own 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'),...

...strangely. The public stage even now colours him like a dye: 'my name receives a brand', he declares, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then. One scandal burns, whether or not he refers to the name 'Greene' in...

...a vocational "infection" that has marked him with a damned spot: The guilty goddess of my harmfull deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than...thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (lines 2-7) Not only is this plainant's name passively branded with the social stigma...

...Southampton), Shakespeare turned to writing exclusively for the theater. Sonnet 11l seems to allude to it: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it my name receives a brand. (Lines 1-5) The "brand" Shakespeare's name received from the public theater...