［蕭愷一］莎士比亞的情詩（4）我配不起你

一段關係中的弱者，真係無好日子過，唉。讀到這首 sonnet，不得不同情我們的老莎。

Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possession,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate:
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.

For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.

Thyself thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me, to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,
Comes home again, on better judgment making.

Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,
In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter.

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[tally123]

siu sir, i love your videos so much!! esp. the collection of shakespeare sonnets!!

[a64843720]

今次首詩點解咁自卑既，之前好自大的。

[mrcheukwing]

tired of being dominated in a relationship.

[tally123]

a person doesn't understand English.

[23456betty]

Perfect!!

[smeligan]

我反而覺得莎翁係有智慧同有自信,一d都唔慘! 與其預左俾人狠撇,不如先發制人,你撇人好過人撇你,而撇人係要­有自信既人先可以做到,無自信既人只會死纏住人地唔放,所以莎翁­咁樣放手絕對係有自信既表現,再者,呢招亦係以退為進,對方睇完­佢呢首詩,睇怕不單止唔會離開佢,反而更死心塌地留在他身邊,莎­翁果然有料到!

[kazuakitsoi]

thanks Siu sir

[72Changes]

I'm captured by ur voice

[yunfanlai]

and "grant" rhymed with "want" should be explicable. the rounded feature of germanic "w" made the following vowel rounded by assimilation.

[yunfanlai]

hi, i'm really bad in germanic languages, but it looks like in shakespeare's days, “posssessing” rhymed with "releasing", didn't it

great video cheers mate!

[chbjdbccs]

you make English literature much more interesting!

[ifuwannadie]

謝謝分享.. 解釋得好清楚..!!

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