| Return to Shakespeare's Sonnet 134 |
1. confess'd: acknowledged.
2. mortgaged: pledged against a doubtful outcome. will: (1) wishes (2) pleasure, especially sexual.
3. so: provided that. that other mine: my other self (my best friend).
5. will not: does not will to.
6. kind: generous.
7. surety-like: as a guarantor. write: endorse.
8. bond: mortgage. bind: rope or chain.
9. statute: full amount secured under bond; security (of a usurer).
10. use: (1) interest. (2) sexual activity.
11. came: who became.
12. my unkind abuse: your unkind deceiving of me; unnatural ill-usage.