Common Lit.

My Common Place Book

  • 6th October
    2011
  • 06

Now even that footstep of lost liberty

Is gone; and now, like slave-born Muscovite,

I call it praise to suffer tyranny;

Sonnet 2, Sir Philip Sidney, lines 9-11

Again the woman of these sonnet has Sidney in such a hold that he doesn’t mind being her slave. He actually enjoys her tyranny which is quiet odd in itself. A woman that can do that must be some kind of woman just for the simple fact that most men would just go on to the next woman.