...the written word. Here he is explicitly aware of the equivalence of artist's space and poet's time: Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since,...thinly placed are Or captain jewels in the carcanet." The ornamental circlet in space and the circling years in time are aesthetically equivalent. But a...

...jade: Since from thee going he went willful slow, Towards thee I'll run and give him leave to go. Oo am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him...his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore arc feasts so solemn and...

...most fully and, from the patron's perspective, suffocatingly elaborated in Sonnet 52, which begins, "So am I as the rich whose blessed key / Can bring.../ For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure." The speaker then likens his audience with the Young Man to "rare" feasts which, though often wished...

...rich whose blessed \ey, Can bring him to his sweet up-loc\ed treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom...pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, 5 Since seldom coming in the long year set, Li\e stones o/ worth they thinly placed are, Or captain...

...my jade: Since from thee going he went wilful-slow, Towards thee I'll run and give him leave to go. So am I as the rich whose blessed key Can bring him...his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. 5 Therefore are feasts so solemn...

..."The hunt ball — what an excitement! Because it only happened once a year." She quoted Shakespeare. "Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since...year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are . . . They're a row of pearls nowadays." "And false ones at that," said Lucy. Mrs. Betterton was triumphant....

...because they reflect the young man's worth, however inadequately: "That which thou hast done " 467 "Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, / Or captain jewels in the carcanet" (52.7-8). The female complainant knows her lover impregnated and abandoned many other women, but she...

...blessed key Can bring him to bis sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, Por Blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore...Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones ofworth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet. So is the time that keeps you as...

...willful willfully 14 go walk (ie, I'll race back without him) 52 So am I as the rich whose blessed key 1 Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The...survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. 4 Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, 5 Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones...

...his celestial face." 195-197.] MALONE (Second Supplement, 1783): So, in our author's 52nd Sonnet: " Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since,...seldom coming in the long year set, Like stones of price they thinly placed are." 198. accidents] COWL (ed. 1914): For accidents in the sense of incidents,...