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Ian
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Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover.
What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis plucked.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”
Gorgeous stuff, on line 601 now.
— Jul 27, 2026 06:28AM
What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis plucked.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”
Gorgeous stuff, on line 601 now.
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Ian
is 55% done
649-654: “For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy
Doth call himself Affection’s sentinel,
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And in a peaceful hour doth cry ‘Kill, kill!’
Distemp’ring gentle Love in his desire
As air and water do abate the fire.”
Phenomenal
— Jul 30, 2026 10:10PM
Doth call himself Affection’s sentinel,
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And in a peaceful hour doth cry ‘Kill, kill!’
Distemp’ring gentle Love in his desire
As air and water do abate the fire.”
Phenomenal
Ian
is 41% done
“But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light,
Shone like the moon in water seen by night.”
Gorgeous and straightforward metaphors and similes, great entry point for Shakespeare.
On line 493
— Jun 25, 2026 05:45AM
Shone like the moon in water seen by night.”
Gorgeous and straightforward metaphors and similes, great entry point for Shakespeare.
On line 493
Ian
is 38% done
“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love
That inward beauty and invisible.
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
Each part in me that were but sensible.
Though neither eyes, nor ears, to hear nor see,
Yet should I be in love by touching thee.”
On line 457 now
— Jun 23, 2026 08:09AM
That inward beauty and invisible.
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
Each part in me that were but sensible.
Though neither eyes, nor ears, to hear nor see,
Yet should I be in love by touching thee.”
On line 457 now
Ian
is 25% done
Line 301 Shakespeare really had a vision for what the ideal horse should look like.
— May 07, 2026 09:27AM