Sonnet Cxi

William Shakespeare

     O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
     The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
     That did not better for my life provide
     Than public means which public manners breeds.
     Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
     And almost thence my nature is subdued
     To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
     Pity me then and wish I were renew'd;
     Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
     Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection
     No bitterness that I will bitter think,
     Nor double penance, to correct correction.
     Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye
     Even that your pity is enough to cure me.

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