Shake-speares Sonnets, Never before Imprinted/Sonnet 86
For other versions of this work, see Sonnet 86 (Shakespeare).
86Was it the proud full saile of his great verse,Bound for the prize of (all to precious) you,That did my ripe thoughts in my braine inhearce,Making their tombe the wombe wherein they grew?Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write,Aboue a mortall pitch, that struck me dead?No, neither he, nor his compiers by nightGiuing him ayde, my verse astonished.He nor that affable familiar ghostWhich nightly gulls him with intelligence,As victors of my silence cannot boast,
I was not sick of any feare from thence.But when your countinance fild vp his line,Then lackt I matter, that infeebled mine.