...characteristic. 14 II A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; (20: 1-4) The young man's beauty is also striking in that it is very specifically...

...transmissible characteristic.” A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion — A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; (20: 1—4) The young man's beauty is also striking in that it is very specifically...

...poetiy—”So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” (l8.14) 7 —and a revised rhetorical purpose: “A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted,...heart, but not acquainted / With shifting change, as is false women's fashion” (20.1-4). Has Shakespeare somehow learned that the woman he was trying to...

...poetry—”So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” (l8.l4) 7 —and a revised rhetorical purpose: “A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted,...A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted / With shilling change, as is false women's fashion” (20.1-4). Has Shakespeare somehow learned that the...

...manual ministrations. It was after this little incident that he wrote sonnet 20, the one that begins A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the Master-Mistress of my passion ... In it, he goes on to say that I was first created to be a woman, till nature fell a-doting over...

...verse ever live young. xx A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted, Hast thou the Master Mistress of my passion, A woman's gentle heart but not acquainted With shifting change as is false women's fashion, An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, 5 Gilding the object...

...verse ever live young. XX A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted, Hast thou the Master Mistress of my passion, A woman's gentle heart but not acquainted With shifting change as is false women's fashion, An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, 5 Gilding the object...

...SONNETS SONNET 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Has thon, the maste?-mistress of?ny passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon...

...radically unstable about the way the sonnets present the relationship between Shakespeare and the youth. 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast...heart, but not acquainted With shifting change as is false women's fashion, An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon...

...themselves. But sonnet 20 proves condusively that he was sexually normal.' Here is the impugned sonnet: A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, Hast...heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon...