...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...like the dyer's hand: Pity me then and wish I were renew'd and there are many signs elsewhere of the same feeling, signs familiar to all real students...

...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...To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me. . . . (111.1-8) The permanent stain that Shakespeare the performer bears and that indelibly marks his...

...title's allusion to Shakespeare's Sonnet en seemed to hint at a shameful and even self-harming collusion: Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. But Auden's depreciation of what Philip Larkin called...

...life provide / Than public means which public manners breeds." He worked for the "public" theatre, "And almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like a dyer's hand."9 His work stains his hands indelibly. He has "gone here and there, / And made myself...

...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 subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me then and wish I were renew'd. (in) 1 Regard,...

...breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd. It has often been said that this sonnet reflects Shakespeare's attitude towards the stage...

...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...Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions of eisel ' gainst my strong infection; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance to correct...

...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. 4 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand; And...dyer's hand. Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed, 8 Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection; No bitterness...

...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...like the dyer's hand: Pity me then and wish I were renew'd and there are many signs elsewhere of the same feeling, signs familiar to all real students...

...nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell, 'gainst my strong infection; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance, to correct correction. Pity me then, dear...