This document is a conversation where one lord accuses another of being perjured or having broken an oath, and proposes that to prove his love he isolate himself for a year in a remote hermitage until the stars have completed their annual cycle. If after enduring this austerity his love remains unchanged, then they will be joined, but if he does not agree to this test their relationship will end.
This document is a conversation where one lord accuses another of being perjured or having broken an oath, and proposes that to prove his love he isolate himself for a year in a remote hermitage until the stars have completed their annual cycle. If after enduring this austerity his love remains unchanged, then they will be joined, but if he does not agree to this test their relationship will end.
This document is a conversation where one lord accuses another of being perjured or having broken an oath, and proposes that to prove his love he isolate himself for a year in a remote hermitage until the stars have completed their annual cycle. If after enduring this austerity his love remains unchanged, then they will be joined, but if he does not agree to this test their relationship will end.
2750: No, no my Lord, your Grace is periur'd much, 2751: Full of deare guiltinesse, and therefore this: 2752: If for my Loue (as there is no such cause) 2753: You will do ought, this shall you do for me. 2754: Your oth I will not trust: but go with speed 2755: To some forlorne and naked Hermitage, 2756: Remote from all the pleasures of the world: 2757: There stay, vntill the twelue Celestiall Signes 2758: Haue brought about their annuall reckoning. 2759: If this austere insociable life, 2760: Change not your offer made in heate of blood: 2761: If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds 2762: Nip not the gaudie blossomes of your Loue, 2763: But that it beare this triall, and last loue: 2764: Then at the expiration of the yeare, 2765: Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts, 2766: And by this Virgin palme, now kissing thine, 2767: I will be thine: and till that instant shut 2768: My wofull selfe vp in a mourning house, 2769: Raining the teares of lamentation, 2770: For the remembrance of my Fathers death. 2771: If this thou do denie, let our hands part, 2772: Neither intitled in the others hart.
The Complete Poetry & Sonnets of William Shakespeare: The Sonnets + Venus And Adonis + The Rape Of Lucrece + The Passionate Pilgrim + The Phoenix And The Turtle + A Lover's Complaint