...many-coloured. The line recalls a charming passage in " Borneo and Juliet," Act I. Sc. 2, — XCII. The forward violet thus did I chide : — Sweet thief,...hast too grossly dy"d. The lily I condemned for thy hand,1 And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair : The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, Oneb blushing...

...all those. Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. l_he forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence...complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair; The roses fearfully...

...Pure sembravami fosse sempre inverno e che, voi assente, io giocassi con esse come con l'ombra vostra. The forward violet thus did I chide, Sweet thief whence...love's breath? the purple pride, Which on thy soft chee\ /or complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd. 5 The lily I condemned /or...

...all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. 99 The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief,...complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand; And buds of marjoram had stoln thy hair: The roses fearfully...

...absence had on the poet? Whot do you notice about the change in tone, compared with Sonnets 88-96? The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief,...pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 5 In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram...

...a poem, and the poet's writing hand seems to find itself involuntarily steeped in rhetorical dyes: The forward violet thus did I chide: 'Sweet thief,...pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 4 In my love's veins thou has too grossly dyed.' The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram...

...That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Or, you may transform other objects, as in Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief,...dy'd. The lily I condemned for thy hand; And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair. And roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another...

...such a small blossom: The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal they sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath? The...complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. When the flowers of some violets are carefully preserved, they retain their color and distinctive...

...rewrite the whole sonnet, which Shakespeare probably (and rightly) decided was not worth rewriting. The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief,...complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair; The roses fearfully...

...seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. Sonnets Sonnet 99 The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief,...complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair; The roses fearfully...