Shakespeare

Question 1

Then I confess …

Answer 1

Then I confess, 
here on my knee,
before high heaven and you, 
that before you, and next into high heaven,
I love your son.

Question 2

My friends were poor …

Answer 2

My friends were poor, but honest so’s my love:
Be not offended, for it hurts not him that he is lov’d of me :
I follow him not by any token of presumptuous suit.
Nor would I have him till I do deserve him.

Question 3

Yet never know how desert that should be,

Answer 3

Yet never know how desert that should be,
I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
Yet in this captions and intenible sieve I still pour in waters of my love.
And lack not lose still. Thus, Indian-like, religious in mine own error,
I adore the sun that looks upon his worshipper,
But knows of him no more.
My dearest madam,

Question 4

Let not your hate …

Answer 4

Let not your hate encounter with my love for loving where you do : but, if yourself, whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, Did ever in so true a flame of liking, wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian, was both herself and love ; O ! then give her pity

Question 5

To her,

Answer 5

To her, whose state is such that cannot choose
But lend and give where she is sure to lose;
That seeks not to find that her search implies,
But, riddle-like, lives sweetly where she dies.