[♦] I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty

To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;

[♦] I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

20 Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time

[♦] Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

[♦] And that so lamely and unfashionable

[♦] That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

[♦] Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

25 Have no delight to pass away the time,