A.Z. Foreman | Shakespeare's Sonnet 111 in Early Modern English Pronunciation @a.z.foreman74 | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 14 hours ago
I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period.
I’m recording them at a rate of (well, more or less) one every week (in this case, because it's Thanksgiving weekend, I have more time and did a crapton). Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them:
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I am making just a select few, like this one, publicly available right now.
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O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost 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
Potions of eisell 'gainst my strong infection;
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure you,
Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period.
I’m recording them at a rate of (well, more or less) one every week (in this case, because it's Thanksgiving weekend, I have more time and did a crapton). Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them:
http://patreon.com/azforeman
I am making just a select few, like this one, publicly available right now.
Have questions? Check my FAQ
patreon.com/posts/64053058
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost 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
Potions of eisell 'gainst my strong infection;
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure you,
Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
