Le Sonnet 59 est l'un des 154 sonnets écrits par le dramaturge et poète William Shakespeare.
Texte original Texte et typographie originale : IF their bee nothing new,but that which is, Hath beene before , how are our braines beguild, Which laboring for inuention beare amiſſe The ſecond burthen of a former child ? Oh that record could with a back-ward looke, Euen of fiue hundreth courſes of the Sunne, Show me your image in ſome antique booke, Since minde at firſt in carrecter was done. That I might ſee what the old world could ſay, To this compoſed wonder of your frame, Whether we are mended,or where better they, Or whether reuolution be the ſame. Oh ſure I am the wits of former daies, To ſubiects worſe haue giuen admiring praiſe.
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