Notes for Shakespeare's Sonnet 147


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1. still: continuously.

3. preserve the ill: maintain the illness.

7. approve: commend; admire.

8. Desire is death, which physic did except: That desire which refused medical care (from reason) is fatal.

9. care: medical care of me.

12. randon: random.   vainly: idly; to no rational purpose.