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his is the first of the sonnets playing upon the nameof Lord Rich, Penelope Devereux's enforced husband.It is obviously written after their marriage. For itsposition among the first thirty sonnets zncte Introduction. 4. More rich, — Our folio reads "blist,** but " rich " of the Qs.is so much better as to claim adoption into the text. i88 NOTES. 5. Heaven makes these fools wise enough to know what theyhave got [j.^. money], knowledge makes them love it,love makes them treasure it as too sacred to touch. Butthere is one rich fool \i,e» Lord Rich] who uses no suchabstinence, and for his punishment is exiled from allknowledge of the treasures of Stella's mind. This seemsobvious enough, but Dr. Grosart finds it "puzzlingnonsense," and by reducing the punctuation in lines 7 and8, to commas after "love" and "things," elicits asthe meaning : "and knowing [what their hands hold]they lay love and loving apart (as they would sacredthings) far from even the show of danger " I
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