Teaching Shakespeare - Session #2
We trained a neural network with Shakespeare’s writings.
Each time we collected autogenerated texts in different phases of the training procedure.
You can read and see how the trained neural network is learning and accepting Shakespeare’s writing style, gradually.
# 01
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# 02
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# 03
The good things shall come
And thou shalt not be defiled:
for thou shalt not be def
And thou shalt not be defiled:
The bad things shall have not gone
And the good things shall be
That which shall be of them to be
That which shall be of them to be
That which shall be of to be
to be
That which shall be of them to be
to be
For he that hath not seen
He that hath not seen
He that hath not seen
He that hath not seen
He he shall be
That which he will not have
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those he shall be
And those that have been
And those that have he shall
And those that have been
he will be
And those that have been
And those they will be
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those that have been
And those that have been
they shall be
And those they shall be
they shall be
And those they shall be
they shall they shall be
they they shall be
And they shall be
# 04
And he that he should be worthy of his things, and of their things, and of their things, and their deeds, and their deeds, and their deeds, and of their words, and of their words, and of their words, and of their words, and of their things, and of their books, and and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of things, and of their things, and of their things, and of their words, and and things and of their words, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their things, and of their books, and of their things, and of their books, and and of things, and and thoughts and the things, and of their thoughts, and of their thoughts, and of their thoughts, and of their thoughts, and of their thoughts, and of their thoughts, and of their things, and of things, and of their things, and of their things, and of their things, and of their words, and and of their things, and of their books and books, and and their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of their books, and of things, and and parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their part, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their part, and and parts and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and of their parts, and of and their parts, and of their parts, and, and and his part, and his part, and his part, and his part, and his part, and his part, and his part, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of and parts, and their parts, and their parts and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and of their parts, and and their parts, and their parts, and and their parts, and their parts, and their, and their parts, and their parts, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and their numbers, and and hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, their hours, and their hours and their hours, and and their hours, and and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours,, and their hours, and their hours, and their hours to the end of the world, which is his own, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in and his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his own part, and in his and his and his part, and in his other part, and and his other part, and in his other part, and his other part, and in his other part, and in his other and other part, and in
# 05
is is one.
(b)A thing which is not a thing, or an thing which is a thing, is not a thing, nor a thing which is a thing, is not a thing, nor a thing which is a thing.
being, the very body, but being one, and being one.
(c being, the being in whose blood is pure and pure,
(d)the being in whose blood is purified and purified,
, the being in whose heart is pure and pure,
(e)the being in where is pure, and being not in
where,
( but not being
(n)the being in which is pure and pure,
(o)the being in whose breath is pure, and
, the being in which is pure, and
, the being in which is pure.
being, the one whose breath is pure,
(v)the one whom being is, and
, the being in whose breath is pure,
(w)the being in whose breath is pure, and
, the being in,
(x)the being in whose breath is pure,
, the being in whose breath,
(y which being is, and
which being is,
and therefore
(z)the being in which is pure and pure,
(k)the being in which is, and
(l)The being in which is pure and pure,
(m)the being in which is pure and pure,
and the being in,
(n)the being in which is pure and pure,
and the being
(o)the in, and
and the being in
(p)the growing-up
(r)the growing-up
or that which is on the ground, and being,
(s)the growing-up
(t)the rising-up
(u)the rising-up
(v)the rising-up
in the air
(w)the rising-up
in the sky
in the heavens
(x)the rising-
in the heaven
(y)the rising- iding
(z in the water)
in the water
in the heaven
in the water
(o)the being in which is purified and pure
in the holy heaven, and
in the heavenly heaven
(b)the being in which is purified and pure,
(c)the being in, and
in the holy heaven
in the heavenly heaven
in the heavenly heaven
# 06
, but, but
But thee, and him
But thou do; and that he
The thing which I have brought,
Which I did bring; and that I did
Myself to make him mine, and to make
He that was of me, and I that was
To be my own, and he that was
For what I did, and the thing which I did
Myself to make, and I to make
For what I did, and my self to make,
Which they did not love:
And I will not then hate, but I will love thee.
For thy, and thou, and thy, and thou,
Which I did put on my face,
That I had made thy self, and made thee,
Thy own, and thy, and thou, and thou, and thou,
And thy thy and thy, and thou, and thou, and thou,
And thy and thy, and thee, and thy, and thou, and
And thy, and thy, and thy, and thou, and thou, and thy, and
Then thou did have your name, and thee, and thy, and
And thy, and thy, and thy, and thy, and thy, and thou, and
And thy, and thy, and thy, and thy, and thy, and
Then thee did have thy breath, and thee did not have it
Then, and thou did not say, and that which thou did
Then did say, and that which thou did
And which thou did say, and that which thou did
Then did I say, and that which thou did
And that which thou did say, and that which thou did
Then did I say, and that that which thou did
And that which thou did, and that which thou did
And that which thou did and did not, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which thou did and which thou did
Then did I say, and that which thou did
And that which thou did, and that which thou did
Then did I say, and that which thou did and that which thou did
And that which thou did and that which you did
And that which thou did, and that which thou did
And that which thou did and that which you did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which thou did and that
Then did I say, and that which thou did and that which thou did
Then did I say, and that which thou did and that which thou did
And that which thou did and that which thou did, and that which you did
And that did I say, and that which thou did and that which thou did
Then did I say, and that which you did
And that which you did and did not, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which thou did and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
And that which thou did, and that which thou did
Then did I say, and that where thou did, and that which you did
And that which thou did, and that which you did
And that which thou did, and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
And that which thou did and that which you did
And that which thou did, and that which you did
And that which thou did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did and that which you did
And that which you did and that that you did
And that in the time which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did and what you did
And that which you did and why you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did and that which you did
And that which you did, and that that you did
And that which you did, and that why you
And that which you did and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
And that which you did, and that which you did
Then did I say, and that which you did and that which how
And that which you did and that which you did
And that which
# 07
and good and good; and for the world’s sake, that is the good, and not the evil.
And if thou art true,
And if thou art true:
thou are true,
So it seems,
And the sun and the sun must grow again,
And the earth and the earth again be seen
And the clouds and the deep sea be seen;
So it is as it is.
The day is come, the day is new;
The night is fresh, the day is fresh;
The fire and the smoke remain;
The world is gone, and all life is gone,
And all death is gone, and all life is gone,
And all that is in heaven is gone,
And all that is in hell is gone,
And all that is in heaven is gone,
And all that is in heaven is gone,
And all that is in heaven is gone,
And all that is in heaven is gone,
And all that is in heaven is gone,
And all that is is lost.
And in all time have I seen
And I have seen my eyes
And I have tasted
The thoughts of the world’s heart
The breath of this day and the day’s wind
The sigh of a hundred years shall make
The day shall be true and the day’s time
The night shall be false and
The night shall be true and the day
The breath of this year shall bring
The night shall be false and the night shall be fresh
The night shall be false and the day shall be full
The hour shall be not seen;
The hours shall be not seen;
all the days shall be fresh
And all the hours shall be lighted
The night shall be dead and shall be gone
The day shall be fresh and the day dead
The night shall be fresh and the day dead
of the world and of heaven will not be
The day shall be dead and the day dead
The sun and the moon shall not shine
The hours shall be no saw;
The hour shall be no seen,
The night shall be dead and will be gone
The hours shall be not seen,
The moon shall be alive and will be gone
The hours shall be gone,
And shall be no saw,
The sky shall be seen
The clouds shall be seen
The hours shall be no seen;
time shall be not seen,
The sun shall not be seen
The time shall be not seen;
“O thou of heaven!
My hand shall be in thee,
My body in thee,
My head in thee,
My breast in thee,
My lips in thee,
And shall be my tongue in thee,
My lips and those of thy neck
For sooth shall be the earth’s delight
The time shall not be time,
The time shall not be light,
The time shall not be sorrow,
The time shall have not seen
The time shall have been no one,
The time shall be of no one,
The time shall have been no one,
The time shall have been dead,
The time shall be of no one,
The time shall be of all that is in heaven
The time should be of a thousand stars
And the day should be of the moon
The time should be of a thousand stars
And the time should be of a thousand hours
The time should be of a thousand days
And all those that be in heaven
And all those that live in heaven
And all those that live in heaven
And all the eternal being in heaven
And all the everlasting being in heaven
And all the heaven and all the earth,
And all the earth and all the sea,
And all the clouds and all the fire,
And all the stars of heaven and of earth,
And all the invisible being in heaven
And all the invisible being in heaven
And all the earth, and all the deep ocean,
And all the air and-hail
And all the clouds and all fire
and the fire of the heaven
And all the sea and sea
the sky and the day
And all the sea and the land,
And all the east and weather
hours, and their seasons,
And all the nights and their days
All this is my world, and this is the world’s day
The earth’s age is all the year’s years,
# 08
The Lord may not be angry, but I have kept him from his anger.
The devil shall not be angry, but I have kept him from his desire.
they did wrong to him in their own sins,
They did wrong to him in their own sins,
The true life did not belong to him;
But he that knows the truth, and knows the truth,
The false, and knows the true,
He will not boast of his own sins,
Whence I did not desire him,
Nor did I love him,
His love is mine.
The devil do not hate him,
And will not hate him;
But he is neither gentle nor gentle:
Whence I did not love him,
Nor did but I love him,
And did not he do that which I did.
“But he which receives my power,
If he who receives me,
And I whom he receives,
The body of such a man that he knows not him,
As he is the best in himself.
He that knows what he knows,
Is not the better of the better:
I, though he be in self-love,
In his self-love,
He shall not despise my truth,
And shall not cove me,
In his self-love,
And love my self,
The self-love is a kind of chastity.
“And therefore,
He shall not love my self;
And, by love, I shall be his,
He shall not want mine:
“He that knows my true self,
For my love hath made it a kind of chast,
To teach it to my self:
The self will not be put on,
And will be put on,
That is what it is:
But this is why I love him:
Since my love is so pure,
And I fear it for ever,
That my love should prove,
That it should be put on,
That it should be put on,
The good love is my way of life,
To give it self and self-love:
“And this being,
The good love is his way:
The self, for it will be self and self-love:
And what thou canst do, is done,
For what thou canst do, is done,
For what thou can, do it:
For what thou canst do, is done,
For what thou canst do, is done:
“For where thou dost,
What thou canst do, is done,
For where thou dost, is done,
But where thou dost, cannot,
Or what thou dost not, is done:
For what thou canst do, is done,
For what thou canst do, is done,
But where thou d, is thy, doth thy:
For where thou dost,, is thy, doth thy:
For if thy beauty be in thee,
When thou wilt make him a man,
Or what thou dost thy beauty,
If it be true, thou canst,
Being thyself, thy self,
Thy life, your life, is the same.
“What the eye should tell,
Which is not seen, is not seen,
What the eye should look, is not seen,
Whilst they have seen,
What the eye sees, is not seen,
What the eye sees, is not seen,
And what the eye sees, is not seen,
As they have seen,
The eye will not make themselves seem,
Nor will the eye give away sight,
That which makes it seem,
Or what looks to be to be,
As they were to be,
The true beauty was not created,
And would not have made his self,
To do what was seen.
“For what is not seen, is not seen,
Which the eye sees, is not seen,
Which the eye can see,
Which the eye sees, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eye knows, is not,
Which the eye knows, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eye, is not, is not,
Which the eye can see, is not,
Which the eyes of your being:
And which the eyes of your
# 09
and full of and full of the power of my hand, that I may know that there is not a still in the world, but a living God which is eternal in my heart.
But I know that I can not behold the end of this world, and that I cannot yet find the truth that I fear, because I cannot see it.
and
“For there is a beginning; but the end of this world, and the beginning of all men, is a fear of the end of the world.
“For I know that there is a beginning, but the end is a fear of the end of the world.
and
“For I know that there is a truth, but the end of a part, is a part of the truth.
and
and
“For I know that there is a beginning, but the end of a part, is a part, and the end of a part, is a part
“And there is a beginning and a end, but the end is a beginning, and the end of a part, is a part
“And there is a beginning and for time, but the end of a part, is a part,
“Therefore, I say to thee, and to them that are still, I say to thee, and to them that were still, I say to thee,
“And unto them that have remained to be, I say to,
and all the things that I know are new and new in all the world,
“And that is the beginning: but that which was before I began to know, and that which was before I began to fear,
“And that which was before I knew, and that which was before I knew, is again,
“And that which is before I know, I say to thee, and to those that were before I knew, I say and all the things that I have,
“And that which was before I knew, and that and all the things that I have, is again,
“And that which was before I had, and that which was before I did, is now,
“And that which was before I was, and that which was not before I knew,
and all the things that I have, is now,
“And that which was before I knew and which was not before I did,
“And that which was before I came to know, and that which and all the things that I know, is now,
“And that which was before I came to know, and that which I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, is again, and that which was before I did, is now,
“And that which was before I did, and that that is now,
“And that which was before I did not do, and that which I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, are again, and that which was before I did,
“And that which was before I did, and that which I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before, is now,
and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all the things and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all the things that and all the be, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
“And that which is before I was, and that which was before I did, is now, and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
‘
“And that which is before I did, and that for eternity was, and that which was before I did, is now, and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did, is now,
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and all the things that I have, are now, and that which was before I did
# 10
“It is not a dream nor a promise nor a promise, nor a promise; but it is a truth.”
one is a thousand; and the others are not a thousand;
The one is twenty-six; the other is twenty-.
And now, behold, what I have been in thy dream,
A thousand more, one more,
My dream to thy friend’s heart,
To thy lips, the beauty of thy love,
And to thy hand, the beauty of thy joy.
So it is, my friend, my dream,
That you might see the true nature of this world:
That I am a living substance.
And now, behold, it is a deep and still world,
Within which I live,
Being my body alone in mine own world,
So that I am yet a living substance.
And now, behold, my mind is full of self-same thoughts,
The self-same thoughts that I have created in this world:
What self-same thoughts shall thou hear from me,
Be you, my self?
O the world that hath no self,
Or that which I am,
My self, what I am,
What thou didst give me, what thou didst lend
Myself, what thou didst lend, what thou didst lend,
Who gave thee the self-same thoughts?
The self-same thoughts that thou didst give me,
Which thou didst give me, the self- thoughts that thou didst give me,
And thyself, the self- self- which thou did give me.
The self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self-
My life shall not be broken, nor my love, nor my heart,
I shall be kept from wrong,
The love of my life shall be with thee,
No part of my life shall be for the sake
of my self.
My eyes shall not be drawn to thee,
For what I have said, what thou didst say,
And what thou didst say, what thou did should did,
For what thou didst say, what thy wrong did,
Where thou didst do, what thou didst did.
For thou didst tell me thy thoughts,
When thou didst say them, thou didst tell me.
Therefore didst thou do, thou didst not say them:
And thou didst lie, thou did do the do.
But this, this, this, this, this,
The self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self-
What thou didst say, what thou didst say, what thou didst do,
What thou didst say, what thou did did,
What thou didst do, what thy self did,
What thy self did, what thou didst do,
What thy self did, what thy self did,
The self- self- self self- self- self- self- self- self- self-
Therefore, if thou didst say thee,
What thou didst say, what thou didst do,
What thy self did, what thou didst do,
Where thou didst do, what thou didst do,
Why didst thou not say thee, what thou did did,
Which thou didst tell, how thy self did say,
Which thou didst say, what thou didst say,
Who didst say, who didst do, how thy self did say,
Who didst make, where did thy self did be,
When didst thou do this?
Who didst do, how didst thou do this,
Who didst make, how did thy self do this,
Which thou didst say, what thou didst do,
Which thou did did, what thy self did tell,
What thou didst say, what thou didst do,
Where thou didst do, where did thy self did appear,
What thy self did, what thy self did do,
Where did thou do that, what thou didst do,
Which thou didst do, what thy self did show,
The self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self- self-
When thou didst give me this self- self- self- self- self- self did, which did thou say,
When thou did’st thou have of thee,
Whose love didst tell thee,
When thou didst lend me this self- self self- self-
# 11
‘When she went away from him, the boy would say: ‘I have gone, and thou wast here.’
When he did not tell her the name of his father, he told her, ‘I have been here, and thou wast here.’
When she had returned, she could not help weeping: ‘My dear sister, what have I done wrong to thee?’
The husband would never tell her, ‘My dear mistress, what have I done wrong to thee,’
She would say, ‘I have gone, and thou wast here.’
“But she did not not say: ‘I have gone, and thou wast here,’
She would say: ‘And thou did not take leave of me, for thy poor love hath done me wrong.’
‘She would not say, ‘When will I find thee?’
‘If I will find thee,’ replies she, ‘and I will be thou.’
‘And I will be thee again; for thou hast done me wrong,
And I did not tell thee, ‘The thief was the thief,
And the boar the boar,
That steals the treasure of thy house.’
And thou didst deceive,
And I did not tell thee, ‘The thief was the thief.’
‘
The Tarquinine Adonis
‘Why, thou art a Tarquinine,
For thou dost not speak;
And if thou canst see me from hence,
You shall not know, nor shall thou know what lies behind
Within my veil.’
‘
She being a Tarquinine, she should bear no ill,
But rather say, ‘He is dead; I have no fear.’
� she would say: ‘So shall I say, O Tarquin, I am dead.’
‘She did not say that I was dead,
And she did not say, ‘No, O Tar Tar,
Who, in her time will not fear me?’
‘
He that is in Time with me
The sun will not leave his sight;
And the stars shall never find his sight.’
‘
The Tarquinine Adonis
was not Tarquinine:
The Tarquinine Adonis
did not kill her;
And Tarquinine Adonis
did not kill Lucrece
When he did not kill her;
The Tarquin did not kill the Adonis;
And Tarquin in Lucrece did not kill the Adonis;
Herself did not die;
The Tarquin doth kill the Adonis
And in Luc doth be still.
O Tarquin’s Grace:
But how do I love thee so?
Thy Grace, not for your sake,
But for the sake of the world!
When thou art come, I should give thee strength,
To break the siege, and to keep the siege.
‘
Tarquin, the Tarquin the Tarquin the Tarquin the Tarquin the Tarquin
And so on she goes,
As before she had gone,
The Tarquin with her heart’s fire was broken;
She in her heart she shows
How far she runs before death,
And yet still her heart keeps him.
‘
‘If thou art in thine eye, then the Tarquin thou hast seen
Will appear with thy own eyes
To have thy eyes seen from thee:
For if thou art in the eye, then thou hast not the eye
For your eyes are not to see thee:
But if you have the eye, then thou art the Tarquin!
‘
The Tarquin, the Tarquin, the Tar Tarquin,
Is the Tarquin the Tarquin that made me die,
And I am the Tarquin that made thee survive,
So if thou art in thine eye
O my Tarquin, my Tarquin, thou are Tarquin,
And I am my Tarquin, and thou are my Tarquin,
O Tarquin’s Adonis!
‘
When he had said this, Collatine would say:
‘Thus goes the Tarquin: ‘When thou art in thy sight,
Wherein I think thou, thou that bearth mine eyes,
That I may see thy face!
For there was no other Tarquin,
But my Tarquin was in thee.’
‘
‘As soon as she would say, ‘The Tarquin’ and Lucrece
And Lucre Time did say,’ ‘The Tarquin,’ I replied:
‘The Tarquin is the Tarquin that made my eyes see,
For he did not lie:
And thou didst lie to me,
For he did
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If you will do all good to my mother,
And for my sake let her be with you:
As she looks on, and sees it so cold:
Her face, in spite of his wits,
Will not be bent, nor will she complain;
And you must obey her, and hold her hand,
And then do thou teach them,
Thy sweet kiss doth bear the mark,
Thy holy blood bear my name:
I will not make thee proud of me,
For thou art my dear friend and my slave,
For if thy love shall be done with me,
And that I may not love thee so,
If thou art my friend and my slave,
If thou art thy friend, and that I may not love thee so,
Thy true love that bears my name shall be,
And that which bears my name is not my own,
For thou art my friend and the slave of this one.
O, why didst thou deceive us all;
Thou art my dear friend, and thou art my slave,
In whose presence we must be gaz’d and dally’d:
If I should have any cause to gaz’d thee,
Then will I wail and wail, and wail and wail;
Thy holy friend, as long as he did be so,
Shall come to my lips, and sing of her;
For thou art my beloved, and thou art thy slave,
And therefore shall I live, and thou shalt live,
And in thy presence shall I be born again,
And in thy presence shall be born again,
And to thyself shall be born again,
And to the rest of this world shall it be,
And never shall not thy will be done;
That all that is right, but what is wrong,
Is thy own self-love, or self-love’s will;
For thou art my friend, and I am yours,
And that is my fault, and thou art my slave,
And that which is thy self-love, but not my self-love’s will.
‘Poor love,’ quoth he, ‘I have sinned against thee,
My heart hath been polluted,
But thou art thy self-love’s fault;
And yet still, as thou wast the sin of my lips,
But now it is mine, and I shall live;
Even now, as thou wast the sin of my lips,
Yet I will still not be my true love:
And though thou art my love, so art thou my slave:
And yet I myself am thy slave;
Therefore let me live, and thou shalt live,
And I shall live, and I will live,
And I shall live, and thou shalt live,
And I shall live, and thou shalt live,
So do not blame me for that which I have done;
If that which I do, then I give this to thee,
And to thee will I live, and thou shalt live.
‘If thou art my friend, then will I lend thee such,
That thou mayst see, if thou art willing,
And so shalt I be in possession.
‘O, let no one accuse me, for my sake,
For my love didst not destroy thee,
For my love did not stain thee,
For my love didst not stain thee,
For my love didst not stain thee,
For my love did survive thee,
For that love which didst stain thee,
Even as thou shalt have my love live.
The time comes, and the time is come;
The time is past, and the time is past,
When thou art the time that I should say,
So I should say to you,
The Time is past, and I am done,
So I should say to you,
The Time is past, and I am done,
And so do you, and so do I.
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and his eye shall behold it, and it shall be the mark of death,
But the mark of this mark shall lie in thee,
Where thou shalt not see it, but I will bring it unto thee.
(And his words shepherds him)
“For behold, thy heart is full of shame;
And thy lips dote on those that do so.
Then shall the tongue, and thy lips make thee moan,
Like unto a slave that pricks his tongue.
Then shalt thou be subject to a knife,
That when thou art done, shallst not sting thee with this oath,
But thou shalt bear my punishment,
And the knife that doth slay thee.
“I have put thee to death, my love, my pride,
And this from thence to avenge me:
My love, my pride, my pride
For thou shalt live till I have slain my love,
And I will not be able to make thy name free,
Nor to give thee more pleasure to dwell in.
‘”Therefore, O friend of men, thou shalt not do such deeds,
That I will curse, and swear,
Then that I will have no more delight in thee,
Nor, indeed, shall my shame prove,
For I am a false and a false slave,
When, as thou didst swear I would never be,
As that I had made my vow in thee,
Thou didst make thy oath so well,
That I couldst not swear it had not been sworn,
But thou didst swear it was to prove it true.
‘”Thus shall the wind blow, and the rain drop
And a cloud in the morning’s night
Will be the doom of thy birth,
Thou wilt hear the wind, and the rain be his doom,
Thou art the wailer, and the wind his cry.
‘”O true friend of men, thou hast the power to kill,
Not by your side but by thy side,
That you may not think my words were false,
Or my words were false, but they were true;
For thou wilt hear the wind in my ears,
And I, if you should ever hear my words,
Will not fear thee, nor wilt I weep.
‘”My blood shall not bleed, nor breath stain,
My breath my soul’s stain,
Nor shall the knife that kills me bleed,
Mine knife shall bleed your face.
“O me, my love, mine friend, mine true love,
Thy friend, thy knife is my flesh,
My love, mine true friend, mine true friend,
My true friend’s blood, my love’s life’s dead.
‘Tis th’ most sacred hour,
My love’s breath hath consecrated my heart,
My love’s blood, my love’s blood, my life’s dead,
And yet it is thine, mine, that shall bear my name
And your name, and mine, that shall bear my name.
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The earth shall burn up, and it shall burn up again:
All the earth shall be grieved,
And all the water which flows from the stream,
The earth’s fair and deep water will soon be gone;
In all this the earth shall be bereft.
The earth shall soon be bere of water,
The earth’s fair and deep water shall be gone;
The fair and deep water will soon be gone;
The grass in the field shall be bare and bare;
The grass in the field shall be bare and bare;
The dead man shall be buried with the field,
And the dead man shall be buried with the field:
In all this all the earth shall be bereft.
For all this was begun,
In this life is it made,
Within which is no man but his image,
Which beauty to all men looks,
But beauty to himself, with his pride and his pride’s pride,
Is the light of day.
‘But now I have told thy story,
And thy verse in the verse
Which thou dost teach,
Thy truth may be true, and thy verse may not be false;
Thou mayst have said thy story,
Thy life is my living and mine verse:
Thy life is but one and in thy life,
That thou mayst tell the world all,
And truth shall be thy light and my living.
‘So it shall come to Tarquin,
When all the earth that was bereft
Tears down Tarquin’s throne, and to the shore
The sea that runs over the eastern banks;
The eastern shore doth quake, and Tarquin shall be gone.
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O that she may live again,
For this was my part, that all my grace did give.
And yet she says:
“Look thou at my breast that didst bear me.
What I saw, how well did it bear?
And yet what was the reason?
Was not thy love what thou dost love?
Yet with him there lies an excuse,
Who to him will we be bound,
To swear the truth that my love did make;
And yet still we do be bound, not to kiss,
To swear in thee that it did make;
For I do not love the way but you kiss;
For I love that which is mine, your, mine, and mine.
And now I know your sweet face, so can I behold
The face that she takes upon her bosom;
Which is to be confounded as she doth look,
Though she herself be the eye that looks at you.
Her hair is in every way worst in my sight,
And I dare not touch it in self,
If it bear any evil in my eyes.
‘Tis well in thy virtue that I should make thee blush,
For my tongue hath sinned not,
But thee, my tongue, hath done it wrong:
Yet I know no excuse which shall excuse it,
Nor tongue nor tongue nor tongue but thee,
Though thou in my power should accuse.
Thou art my slave, my dear, and I am thy master.