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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Sonnets 90 - 98

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Violli, Unicio J.
Affiliation: Associate Professor Of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Sonnets 90 - 98

(90) - "then hate me . . ."

Summary:

Your abandonment of me should be done at the onset of my woes; for then
other griefs by comparison will not seem so great.

Paraphrase

1. Then hate me whenever you wish; if at any time, then now is the best
time;

2. now, while the world is determined to frustrate my actions,

3. join with bad luck and, together, crush me;

4. and do not add to that by heaping woes on me later.

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