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Time SONNET NO. 123     No, time thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are are nothing novel, nothing strange, They are but dressings of a former sight: Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou hast foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire Than think that we before have heard them told Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not wondering at the present or the past For thy records and what we see doth lie, And more or less by thy continual haste:  This I do vow and this shall ever be I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.

•   Note the following expressions, we find-thy pyramids, the registers, thy records, thy continual haste, thy scythe (see 122)
   
  Here the writer of this sonnet tells us that in spite of time and the changes that time causes in this world-he vows that he will be true to his ideals which time cannot change or cause to decay. If Will Shakspere wrote this sonnet what does he mean by writing that he would be true. But Bacon wrote that "I found I was fitted for nothing so well as the study of truth" also " I am not hunting for fame or to look for private gain (we are told that Shakspere wrote for gain and nothing else) enough for me the consciousness of well deserving".
  
  

  

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