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IT was only natural that such a youth should want change; and in Sonnet 76 we find the poet asking,
Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
So far from variation or quick change?…
Why write I still all one, ever the same…
That every word doth almost tell my name?
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Rowse, A.L. (1965). The Poet and the Patron. In: Shakespeare’s Southampton. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81607-1_5
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