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Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus, That I Have Scanted All

Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus, That I Have Scanted All

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Description of Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus, That I Have Scanted All

Sonnet 117 is the first of three distinct but related sonnets that all seek to excuse, or at the very least explain, Shakespeare's own infidelities and inconstancies, first confessed to his lover in Sonnet 109 and, most directly, in Sonnet 110.

Here, our poet lists a whole raft of failings on his part in his conduct towards his young man, and positively invites him to level accusations to their end against him, only to then, with the closing couplet, claim that although such charges be justified in so much as all of this may well have been the case, he has with his actions merely been putting his lover's own fidelity and character to the test.

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