William Shakespears SONNET NUMBER THREE

try and convince her to have children. "Now is the time that face should form another" (ll. 2). There is a double meaning here, now is the time one will be getting older. Now one will start to age and look like one's mother. It is also the time to have a child, and pass on one's beauty and youth. The speaker is also implying a sense of urgency, that if she is going to ever have children, it must be soon because now is the time "Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest/Thou dust beguile the world, unbless some mother" (ll 3-4). Here he is saying that if one does not have a child, then not only does
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