...leaded window of an Elizabethan house into a garden, while we hear the first twelve lines of sonnet 57 ('Being your slave, what should I do but tend / Upon the hours and times of your desire'). This seems to establish him as the watcher, masochistically in thrall to the beauty of the other man,...

...circumstance from a few sonnets like the following (No. 57), which he claims are addressed to the Queen: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and time of your desire ? I have no precious time at all to spend, No services to do till you require....

...fool; (2) such a faithful, constant fool 14. he: ie, love; ill: evil 132 Shakespeare's Sonnets 133 57 Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the...all to spend Nor services to do till you require. 4 Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor...

...empowerment of God will be released in us. We are God's slaves, like Shakespeare's poetic lover who states, "I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require." 1 This internal work is accomplished by a continual series of revelations of our powerlessness. These...

...to appease his lover for having been so controversial, direct, and in Second Circle with his needs. Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the...Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst 1, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid...