...Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest wonns to dwell: Nay, ifyou read this line, remember not The hand that writ it;...you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot Ifthinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded...

...of Falstaff — "I know thee not, old man" — so the poet urges the young man simply to forget him: "Nay, if you read this line, remember not /The hand that writ it." But the difference is that the poet's request to be forgotten is in reality a declaration of abject...

...the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell. Nay, if you read this line, remember not...on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,...

...sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell. 4 Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand...forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. 8 O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I, perhaps, compounded am with clay, Do not so much as...

...surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. Nay, if you read this line, remember not...forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. Oh if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my...

...verb sterben (to die). While, strictly speaking, Celan's "dies schreibe ich" translates Shakespeare's Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, the phrase "dies schreibe ich" (I write this) appears nowhere in Shakespeare's sonnet. More than merely...