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Margeurite SONNET NO. 61          Is it thy will thy image  should keep open,        My heavy eyelids to the weary night?        Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,        While shadows  like to thee do mock my sight,        Is it thy spirit  that thou send'st from thee       So far from home into my deeds to pry        To find out shames and idle hours  in me        The scope and tenure of thy jealousy?        0 no!  Thy love, though much is not so great:        It is my love that keeps mine eye awake,        Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,       To play the watchman  ever for thy sake,        For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,        From me far off, with others all too near.

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     Note the repetition of the following~thy will, thy image, thy
  spirit, thy jealousy, thy  love, thy  sake.
  
  7th Line.  Idle hours-to see how badly I spend my spare
                  time.
  11th Line.  Defeat-destroy.
  12th Line.  Play the watchman-keep awake.
  
     Here Bacon asks Marguerite if she wishes that her image
  prevent him from sleeping?  That his slumbers should be
  broken by her mocking him when he is awake and can see-that
  she sends her spirit far away to find out what he is doing
  because she is jealous.
  
     He answers these questions by saying that it is not her love
  for him but his love for her that keeps him awake.  That he is
  prevented from resting as his love is watching over her for her        own sake and her behaviour with other men, she being elsewhere and far away from him.
  
  

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