...qualify; As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie. Sonnets (109) To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you...first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. Sonnets ( 104) Give me your hands. Receive you her, you him, be plighted with A love that grows as...

...ChTr; EBEV; EIL; LiTB; NAEL-1; NOBE; OBEV; OBSC; TEP CIV. To me, fair friend, you never can be old 227 Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper; A peck of pickled...pickled pepper, Where's the peck of pickled pepper P summer's pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumns tum'd In process of the seasons have I seen....

...always that of the soul. GEORGE SAND (1804-76), French novelist. Handsome Lawrence.cb. 1 (1872). 46 on of England, Lecture I 11883). 17 To found a great empire eyed. Such seems your beauty still. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Sonnet...

...tell; And more, much more, than in my verse can sit, Your own glass shows you when you look in it. 104 To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters' cold Have from the forests shook three summers'...

...youth Ami delves the parallels in beauty's brow. But he gave voice to another standard when he wrote, To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. • Judith Foulke is a staff writer for FDA Consumer. T\ L 1J ILL]...

...mute; Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. 97 To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,...

...love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 104 To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,...

...to tell. And more, much more, than in my verse can sit Your own glass shows you when you look in it. To me, fair friend, you never can be old; For as you were when first your eye I eyde, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold, Have from the forests shook three summers'...

...Ruslan Shtivel" (written July 29, 1997... in his thirtieth year.) CHAPTER ABOUT AGING, SUN, AND CANCER To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed Such seems your beauty still. • WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE • While Shakespeare was happy to overlook...

...dialogue that ended badly. The new sonnets range from gorgeous reminiscences of former intimacies — "To me, fair friend, you never can be old, / For as you were when first your eye I "That which thou hast done " 463 eyed, / Such seems your beauty still" (104.1-3) — to relentless...