Truth is a beauty
that stinks not in sweetest death —
as a rose—my verse ¹

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Image: Copper engraving of William Shakespear by Martin Droeshout 1623 with a facsimile of William Shakespeare’s signature.

1. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem— Sonnet LIV – William Shakespeare ↩