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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Sonnets 118 - 125

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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 118 - 125

(118) - "like as to make . . ."

Summary:

I take a strong physic to cure myself of a sweet and uncloying love; but
I turn sicker, thus adding to my faults; for I learned that physics poison
those already sick with love of you.

Paraphrase

1. In order to increase our appetites,

2. we stimulate our jaded palates with pungent spices,

3. just as we forestall an unknown illness

4. by taking a physic, turning sick to ...

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