More Shakespeare's Sonnets
By Fox-Trot-9

Sonnet 50: Fair Youth
(To the Reader 1)

By adding to these rhymes, I do debase
The honor of my once-prestigious name;
But for posterity in such disgrace,
You all should know the honor of my aim:
'Tis not to justify my wanton ways
With women, as these many crimes relate;
'Tis not to rectify the faithless days
And nights, and thereby ease the jealous hate:
I speak with all the honesty of man
Within the court of gossip's public ear
That I, committing to these sins, began
With good designs to save this worthy peer.
      However critics take this large offense,
      My double meaning has a double sense.

(To be continued...)

A/N: Hey there... It's been a while I know, but here's three more sonnets for the collection, this time from the Fair Youth... Yep. Consider this sonnet collection a kind of closet play made of sonnets, or an epistolary sonnet sequence.