| Return to Shakespeare's Sonnet 79 |
2. grace: favor, approval.
3. my gracious numbers are decay'd: i.e., my verses are no longer finding your favor as they used to.
4. give another place: yield its place to another.
5. thy lovely argument: the theme of your loveliness.
6. travail: labor.
7. of: about.
11. afford: offer.