Sonnet, Fun Fact, and Relevant Post

Online recording software >> Sonnet 111 by Shakespeare:

O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
   Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye,
   Even that your pity is enough to cure me.


Fun Fact about Chaucer:
He has the same first name as my dad "Geoffrey," except it is spelled differently.
Also, there is a crater on the far side of the moon named Chaucer.

Relevant Post:
The Miller's Tale