The Place 2 Be

Critique of Sonnet 136
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

Theme:      Will
Content:    A further play on the author's first name with exactly half the 14 puns of Sonnet 135 in a 14-line sonnet.


If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.


Will will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none.


Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store's account I one must be;
For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
That nothing me a something, sweet, to thee.


Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
And then thou lov'st me for my name is Will.


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