Question for Eng Lit and Lang geeks
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woolymonkeyDoes anyone know if loved and proved rhymed fully in Elizabethan English?
Spider has to write a comparison of two Shakespeare sonnets (116 and 130 since you ask). 116 is the one that ends
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
It doesn't really matter, but it would be very satisfying to know, and tailor his point accordingly.
If you're wondering which sonnet is 130, it's 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'.
Spider has to write a comparison of two Shakespeare sonnets (116 and 130 since you ask). 116 is the one that ends
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
It doesn't really matter, but it would be very satisfying to know, and tailor his point accordingly.
If you're wondering which sonnet is 130, it's 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'.
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Date: 2011-05-30 12:24 pm (UTC)Am a paid-up 'geek' on language history - in particular those bits which would (if I had time machine) allow me to go nyahnyahnyah to some of my prescriptivist old teachers/bosses.