Episode 18: Unrequited Love Sighs

At the request of our new friend in Belgium, we bring you SONNET 61 with a hopeful reminder, "There are lots of fish in the sea!"

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Is it thy wil, thy Image should keepe open                                  Is it thy wil, thy Image should keep open

My heavy eielids to the weary night?                                  My heavy eyelids to the weary night?

Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,        Dost thou desire my slumbers / should be broken,

While shadowes like to thee do mocke my sight?                       While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?

Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee                                    Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee

So farre from home into my deeds to prye,                                  So far from home into my deeds to pry,

To find out shames and idle houres in me,                           To find out shames and idle hours in me,

The skope and tenure of thy Jelousie?                         The scope and tenor of thy Jealousy?

O no, thy love though much, is not so great,                         O no, thy love though much, is not so great,

It is my love that keepes mine eie awake,                                     It is my love that keeps mine eye awake,

Mine owne true love that doth my rest defeat,                         Mine owne true love that doth my rest defeat,

To plaie the watch-man ever for thy sake.                                      To play the watch-man ever for thy sake.

     For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,                   For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,

     From me farre of, with others all to neere.                             From / me far off, with others all too near.

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