| Return to Shakespeare's Sonnet 140 |
1. press: push.
2. tongue-tied: silent.
4. manner: nature. pity-wanting: unpitied.
5. wit: wisdom.
6. Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so: To say you love me even though you don't.
7. testy: fretful; peevish.
8. know: hear.
11. ill-wresting: that puts a bad construction on everything.
13. so: i.e., mad.
14. wide: wide of the mark (from archery); i.e., astray.