So the
break is almost over L Sonnet 78:
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LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to
sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In others' works thou dost but mend the
style,
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;
But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning, my rude ignorance.
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Volta-wise,
this one’s pretty straightforward: The yet at the beginning of the third
quatrain and the but at the beginning
of the closing couplet. Helpfully marked
with standard volta markers J More tomorrow—
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