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Mistress Fitton SONNET NO. 41         Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,       When I am sometime absent from thy heart       Thy beauty  and thy years full well befits,       For still temptation  follows where thou art.       Gentle thou art and therefore to be won,       Beautious thou art  and therefore to be assailed,       But when a woman woes, what woman's son,       Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed.       Ay me but yet thou might'st my fear forbear,       And chide thy beauty  and thy straying youth,       Who lead thee in their riot even there,       Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth,       Hers by thy beauty  tempting her to thee,       Thine by thy beauty  being false to me.

•   Note the repetition of certain words, we find-thy beauty,
  thy beauty, thy beauty, thy beauty, woman, woman, thou art,
  thou art, thou art.
    Note lines 5 and 6 and compare with 1 Henry VI, Act 5,
  Scene 3.
                "She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd,
                She's a woman-therefore to be won."
  
    This sonnet is addressed by Bacon to Mistress Fitton where he tells her the petty wrongs that liberty (freedom from restraint) commits (becomes guilty of) when he is away from her. Her beauty and her years (youth) full well befits buttemptation(enticement to evil) follows her wherever she is. He tells her that she is gentle and therefore to be won, beautiful and therefore likely to be assailed (attacked) that when a woman woes (grieves) no man would leave her till he had prevailed (gained the victory) that she might forbear (avoid voluntarily) his fear and chide (rebuke) her beauty and her straying (wandering away from control) youth which led her in their riot (debauchery) everywhere and that she was forced to break a two-fold truth, temptation and falsehood.
  

   

   

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