{"id":"01KG6S4D9E4JV47YN9YTPF4ME2","cid":"bafkreiekz6apswojcjwwr7nstrjmydzv7d5uuna4sqmjdhkgvsenu6vtcm","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# # Sonnets.\n\n## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)\n\nThis is a chapter from the poetry collection [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), containing several sonnets. The chapter was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) as part of the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. The chapter's text spans lines 12297 to 12390 of the source file and includes the title \"# Sonnets.\"\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\n\nThe chapter is part of a larger collection of William Shakespeare's works, including \"Venus and Adonis,\" \"Lucrece,\" \"Sonnets,\" and \"Pericles.\" The collection is a facsimile edition, likely a scholarly compilation. The text was extracted using the structure-extraction-lambda tool. The chapter follows the chapter titled \"# SHAKES-PHARMS.\" (arke:01KG6S4D9ER6S122CD3P70NN15) and precedes the chapter titled \"# SOWNS.\" (arke:01KG6S4D9HDDRBWMF7R0ZMXATR).\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\n\nThe chapter contains several sonnets, including sonnets 111, 112, 113, 114, and 115. The sonnets explore themes of love, the poet's relationship with his beloved, and the impact of time and circumstance on their bond. Sonnet 111 discusses the poet's \"harmfull deeds\" and his desire for his friend's pity, while sonnet 112 emphasizes the importance of the beloved's love and approval over the opinions of others. Sonnet 113 describes the poet's mind's inability to see clearly when separated from his beloved, and sonnet 114 explores the nature of flattery and the poet's perception of his beloved. Sonnet 115 reflects on the passage of time and the enduring nature of the poet's love.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:26:27.012Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"# Sonnets.","end_line":12390,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:23:29.732Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"# Sonnets.","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":12297,"text":"# Sonnets.\n\nThen glue me welcome, next my heaven the best,\nEuen to thy pure and moft moft louing breft.\n\n## 111\n\nO For my fake doe you with fortune chide,\nThe guiltie goddesse of my harmfull deeds,\nThat did not better for my life provide,\nThen publick meanes which publick manners breeds.\nThence comes it that my name receives a brand,\nAnd almost thence my nature is subdu'd\nTo what it workes in, like the Dyers hand,\nPitty me then, and with I were renu'de,\nWhilst like a willing pacient I will drinke,\nPotions of Eysell gainft my strong infection,\nNo bitternesse that I will bitter thinke,\nNor double pennance to correct correction.\nPittie me then deare friend, and I assure yee,\nEuen that your pittie is enough to cure mee.\n\n## 112\n\nY Our loue and pittie doth th'impression fill,\nWhich vulgar scandal ftsmpt vpon my brow,\nFor what care I who calles me well or ill,\nSo you ore-greene my bad, my good alow?\nYou are my All the world, and I must ftriu,\nTo know my fhames and praises from your tounge,\nNone else to me, nor I to none aline,\nThat my fteel'd fence or changes right or wrong,\nIn so profound Abifuse I throw all care\nOf others voyces, that my Adders fence,\nTo cryttick and to flatterer stopped are:\nMarke how with my neglect I doe dispence.\nYou are so strongly in my purpose bred,\nThat all the world besides me thinkes y'are dead.\n\n## 113\n\nS Ince I left you, mine eye is in my minde,\nAnd that which gouernes me to goe about,\nDoth part his function, and is partly blind,\n\nSeemes\n\n\n# SHAKE-SPEARES.\n\nSeemes seeing, but effectually is out:\nFor it no forme deliuer to the heart\nOf bird, of flowre, or shape which it doth lack,\nOf his quick obiects hath the minde no part,\nNor his owne vision houlds what it doth catch:\nFor if it see the rud’st or gentleft fight,\nThe most sweet-fauor or deformedst creature,\nThe mountaine, or the sea, the day, or night:\nThe Croe, or Doue, it shapes them to your feature.\nIncapable of more repeat, with you,\nMy most true minde thus maketh mine vnerue.\n\n114\n\nOR whether doth my minde being crown’d with you\nDrink evp the monarks plague this flattery?\nOr whether shall I say mine eie faith true,\nAnd that your loue taught it this Alcumie?\nTo make of monsters, and things indigeft,\nSuch cherubines as your sweet felfe resemble,\nCreating euery bad a perfect beft\nAs faft as obiects to his beames affemble:\nOh tis the first, tis flatty in my seeing,\nAnd my great minde most kingly drinkes it vp,\nMine eie well knowes what with his gust is greeting,\nAnd to his pallat doth prepare the cup.\nIf it be poison’d, tis the lesser finne,\nThat mine eye lous it and doth fixft beginne.\n\n115\n\nThose lines that I before haue writ doe lie,\nEuen those that said I could not loue you deerer,\nYet then my judgement knew no reason why,\nMy most full flame should afterwards burne cleerer.\nBut reckening time, whose millions accidents\nCreepe in twixt vowes, and change decrees of Kings,\nTan sacred beautie, blunt the sharp’st intents,\nDiuert strong mindes to th’ course of altring things:\nAlas why fearing of times tiranie,\n\nMight\n\n","title":"# Sonnets."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S4D9ER6S122CD3P70NN15","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S4D9HDDRBWMF7R0ZMXATR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:23:31.630Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:26:27.195Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}