Sonnet CXXIX
\n“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
\nIs lust in action; and till action, lust
\nIs perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
\nSavage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
\nEnjoy’d no sooner but despised straight,
\nPast reason hunted, and no sooner had
\nPast reason hated, as a swallow’d bait
\nOn purpose laid to make the taker mad;
\nMad in pursuit and in possession so;
\nHad, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
\nA bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
\nBefore, a joy proposed; behind a dream.
\nAll this the world well knows; yet none knows well
\nto shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.”
\n William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n
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Sonnet CXXIX “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated, as a swallow’d bait On purpose … Continue reading “Shakespeare”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}