This sonnet describes various societal ills including faithlessness, corrupted honor, virtue degraded, and strength overcome by weakness. The speaker laments these issues but does not want to die because it would leave their love alone. The structure is unusual in that it describes problems in the first three quatrains and gives a reason for living in the final line.

1. Sonnet 66
John Evans

2. The Young Man and the Dark Lady

3. The First Quatrain
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As, to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,

4. The Second Quatrain
And guilded honour shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled,

5. The Third Quatrain
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly doctor-like controlling skill,
And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
Galileo being sentenced to house arrest

6. Unusual Structure
Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

7. Picture Citations
• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/self/self-1634.jpg (young man)
• http://firsten.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/norulers.jpg (Unusual Structure)
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg/220px-
Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg (King Louis)
• http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalMorons (Peasants)
• http://medievalfixation.blogspot.com/2011/08/medieval-maidens.html (Maiden)
• http://faithjustice.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/galileo-galilei-15-february-1564-%E2%80%93-8-
january-1642/ (Galileo)
• http://www.gayatriforum.org/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=5019 (Dark lady)