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...the language of falsified desire, wittily expressed by the male poet at the expense of the female: "When my love swears that she is made of truth, / I do believe her (though I know she lies)" (1-2). Yet in this scenario the female beloved is the active speaker, the linguistic maker of faith,...

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...the blanket, puts it lovingly inside the bag, then exits. Lights down. SONNET 1 38 Lights up. BARD: "When my love swears that she is made of truth, I...youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties." EARL sits at the breakfast table, sipping coffee, eating a piece of toast, looking at the newspaper....

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...recognize as fake. He plays "some untutored youth," and she portrays a woman who is true and just: When my love swears that she is made of truth I do...though I know she lies. That she might think me some untutored youth. Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me...

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...must remain a matter of conjecture.1 Versions of two sonnets from the second series, 138, beginning: When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, and the key-sonnet 144, 'Two loves I have, of comfort and despair", were printed at the beginning of...