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...loving breast. A COMPLAINT. O ! for my sake do you with fortune chide The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which publick manners breeds.' Thence comes it, that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature...

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...of my harmless deeds, That did uot better for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence comes it that my name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature i* subdued To what it works in, like the dier's hand—. Or that other confession : — Alas 1 'tis...

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...subsistence, may be fairly deduced from the language of his ninety-first sonnet : — " O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my...deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost...

...of my harmless deeds, That did ndt hetter for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence comes it that my name receives a...And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and...

...those wonderful creations, with the throes of which his breast was heaving then : — " Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide The guilty Goddess of my...And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet CO. i Sonnet 111....

...on the stage, or writing for the theatre." The passage alluded to is as follows : " O ! for my sake, do you with fortune chide, " The guilty goddess of..." That did not better for my life provide, " Than publick means, tvhich public, Ic manners breeds." But is there any thing in these words which, read...