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This podcast series will take you through them one by one in easy 15 minute installments. The show’s two hosts, and maybe one or two special guests, will read through the sonnet and talk about what it means to them and what they feel about it.
You can listen as the hosts increase their knowledge of the sonnets while providing an entertaining and enlightening experience for you.
Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel: Do not press
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
29 minutes 9 seconds
11 years ago
Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel: Do not press
Be wise as thou art cruel: Do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain,
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit: Better it were,
Though not to love, yet love to tell me so,
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know.
For if I should despair I should grow mad,
And in my madness might speak ill of thee;
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
Mad sland’rers by mad ears believèd be.
That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.
William Shakespeare
Presenters
Mark Chatterley
Thierry Heles
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
This podcast series will take you through them one by one in easy 15 minute installments. The show’s two hosts, and maybe one or two special guests, will read through the sonnet and talk about what it means to them and what they feel about it.
You can listen as the hosts increase their knowledge of the sonnets while providing an entertaining and enlightening experience for you.
