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Sonnet #151
Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason;
But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,
He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
No want of conscience hold it that I call
Her love for whose dear love I rise and fall.
1、Love:(1)Cupid，参见133.2；(2)Passion，拟人，亦可作 A person in passionate love 解。 Love is too young:参见115.3“Love is a babe”. conscience:sense of what is right and wrong.
2、conscience 前省略 that.
3、gentle cheater:指 the mistress；所以称其 gentle cheater 是因为她表面温柔，内心斯诈。 urge:(1)encourage,stirup；(2)stress. amiss(n.):sinfulness,fault.
4、=Let yourself proves of my faults. prove,虚拟语气。
5、For:Because. betray:(1)deceive；(2)deliver up treacherously；(3)lead astray.
6、nobler part:i.e. soul.
7、soul,body，关于二者的关系参考第146首。 he:i.e. my soul，拟人。
8、flesh:(1)body；(2)penis. stays:waits for. reason:explanation,argument.
10、his:i.e. of flesh. triumphant:triumphal. proud of:swelling with. pride:desire.
11、He:i.e. flesh.drudge:servant who has to work hard at a dull job.
13、No want of conscience hold it:Do not consider it a lack of conscience.
14、love:my beloved，为上行I call 的直接宾语，有的版式本添有引号，此处照Q。 第二个love:affection.
日期: 2007年4月23 周一