Schule und Unterricht 128 And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed Not by our feeling but by others’ seeing. 4 For why should others’ false adulterate eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good? 8 No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own; I may be straight though they themselves be bevel; By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown, 12 Unless this general evil they maintain: All men are bad and in their badness reign. 2 … receives reproach of being: if one is not so and is nevertheless reproached to be so 3 so deemed: regarded as immoral 5 adulterate: the Latin «adulter» means both «adultery» and «false?.» False adulterate is «false false» 6 give salutation: pronounce their blessing 6 sportive playful 8 which: who 8 wills: wishes, desires 9/10 level at: to aim at, to shoot at 11 bevel: not straight, not upright 12 rank: foul, rancid, smelling bad Activities 1. You are given paraphrases of two lines in a jumbled order. Match the paraphrases to the two appropriate lines in the sonnet each: a. Even true joy is lost if it is only considered true joy in the others’ view and not because I feel the joy.