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Herbert SONNET NO. 10      For shame  deny that thou  bearest love  to any    Who for thyself  art so unprovident    Grant if thou  wilt, thou  art beloved of many,    But that thou none lovest is most evident:    For thou  art so possessed with murderous hate    That `gainst thyself thou stick'st  not to conspire,    Seeking that beautious roof to ruinate    Which to repair should be thy chief desire:    O change thy thought  , that I may change  my mind,    Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?    Be as thy presence  is gracious and kind    Or to thyself at least kind hearted prove    Make thee another self for love  of me,    That beauty still may live in thine  or thee.

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    Note the repetition of certain words, we find-thyself, thyself,
  thyself, thy chief desire, thy thought, thy presence, thou, thou,
  thou, thou, thou, thou, love, love, love.
  
  1st Line.  " For shame ", means for shame's sake i.e. to save
              your credit for truthfulness.
  
  6th Line.  " Stick'st not  means ` Thou dost not hesitate
  
  7th Line.  Compare " Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5,
              Scene 4. "Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
              lest growing ruinous-the building fall".
  
  9th Line.  Means that Herbert must change his thoughts,
              give up his aversion to marriage so that Bacon may
              change his mind and no longer believe that Herbert
              hates mankind.
  13th Line.  For love of me, i.e. for my sake.
  
  
  
  Here Bacon tells Herbert that Herbert who is himself so
  improvident should deny that he has love for no one except
  himself.  That Herbert is beloved by many people but that it is
  evident that he has no love for any one but himself.  That he
  conspires (plots) against himself to ruinate (destroy the beautious
  roof (covering) to keep which in repair (good condition) should
  be his chief desire.  He tells Herbert to change (alter) his
  thoughts so that Bacon may change his mind about Herbert's
  behaviour.  Asks why hate should be better  lodged  than  love
  and tells Herbert to be as gracious and kind as his presence
  (bearing) is-to prove himself to be kind-hearted and to have a
  child (make thee another self) so that beauty might still live in
  himself or such child.
  
  

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