...extensively among all of the quotations of Renaissance lyrics lacing the "essay" which concludes that work: "From you have I been absent in the spring, / When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim — . . . Nor did I wonder at the lily's white / Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose, / They...

...after their lord's decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds arc mute, Of, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's...

...year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where! . . . For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Sonnets (97) 53 Juliet. Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone — And yet no farther than a wanton's...

...Lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me, But hope of orphans, and unfathered fndt, 10 Por Summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute. Or if they sing, 't is with so dull a cheer, That leaves loo\ pale, dreading the Winter 's near. XCVIII From you have...

...issue seem'd to me, But hope of Orphans, and un-fathered fruite, For sommer and his pleasures waite 92 cheere. That leaves looke pale, dreading the winter's neere. (1. 9-14) AWP; E1L; EnLoPo; EyDe; GTBS;...

...after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. 98 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, drest in all his trim, Hath put...

...after their lord's decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me 10 But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit, For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. From you I have been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put...

...after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,...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...

...alter their lords' decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute. (5-12) No longer "O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might" (23.8), the speaker views the...

...speaker's anguish and desolation. In Sonnet 98 Shakespeare brilliantly adapts this seasonal convention: From you have I been absent in the spring When proud-pied...dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell...