{"id":357,"date":"2025-01-04T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/shakespeare-on-lust\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:16:10","slug":"shakespeare-on-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/shakespeare-on-lust\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare on Lust"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sonnet 129<\/a>: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame<\/span><\/div>\n
Is lust in action; and till action, lust<\/span><\/div>\n
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame,<\/span><\/div>\n
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,<\/span><\/div>\n
Enjoyed no sooner but despis\u00e8d straight,<\/span><\/div>\n
Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had<\/span><\/div>\n
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait<\/span><\/div>\n
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;<\/span><\/div>\n
Mad in pursuit and in possession so,<\/span><\/div>\n
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;<\/span><\/div>\n
A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe;<\/span><\/div>\n
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.<\/span><\/div>\n
    All this the world well knows; yet none knows well<\/span><\/div>\n
    To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Related<\/em>:<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Role of Concupiscence in the Politics of the Day<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Like a Moth to the Flame<\/a>.  A sermon of sorts on romantic folly. Jean van Heijenoort plays the moth, Anne-Marie Zamora the flame. The moth dies.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sonnet 129: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame   Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoyed no sooner but despis\u00e8d straight, Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had Past … Continue reading “Shakespeare on Lust”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,42,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sex-love-lust","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}