...sonnet 1 10, where the poet says he has "made myself a motley to the view": Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view. Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. (Son. 110,...

...nothing this wide universe I call Save thou my Rose; in it thou art my all. Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. 5 Most...

...his attitude to the business of being a playwright? Two of the sonnets, 110 with its lament, "I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view" (1-2), and 111 with its complaint about depending on "public means which public manners breeds"(4),...

...stage'. In Sonnet 1 10 freely he acknowledges his life as an actor with the words: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear . . . So for Shakespeare to have been able to...

...thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'), so occasionally he could associate music with the subversively importunate claims of the sensual appetite....

...acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase, who...

...cringing, and we hiss. Scales glitter on our bodies as we fall. (Lowell 1974) 1 1 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view'. I quote Orwell from 'Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool' (Kermode 1969: 159). 1 2 The italicised line parodies...

...clowns: At the party he wore motley. Old-time fools and jesters wore motley. 3 a jester; fool: / have gone here and there and made myself a motley to the view (Shakespeare) 4 a woolen fabric of mixed colors, used for clothing from the 1300's to 1600's, especially...

...suggestinn of deliherately impusing hardship il heaven is monusyllahic. II0 Alas 'tis true, i have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored my own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affertions new. Most true...

...has said: 'I am not true.' In Shakespeare, for example, Sonnet 1 10 begins, 'Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view', and ends, 'Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best / Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.'...