...And so should you, to love things nothing worth." Much the same scenario is played out in sonnet 71: O if (I say) you look upon this verse, When I, perhaps,...so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay; Lest the wise world should look into your moan, And mock you with me after...

...Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it;...forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. Oh if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my...