Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 118 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 118 |
1 Like as to make our appetites more keen, 2 With eager compounds we our palate urge, 3 As to prevent our maladies unseen, 4 We sicken to shun sickness when we purge, 5 Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness, 6 To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding, 7 And sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness 8 To be diseas'd ere that there was true needing. 9 Thus policy in love, t'anticipate 10 The ills that were not, grew to faults assured 11 And brought to medicine a healthful state 12 Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured: 13 But thence I learn, and find the lesson true, 14 Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you. |
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