I created this video to cheer up a friend who was feeling down.\n\nShakespeare\'s sonnets are compact, intimate, dense with subtlety and entendres. In contrast to how actors usually read Shakespeare, I prefer to read these poems softly, slowly, savoring every word.\n\nIn this sonnet, Shakespeare addresses his muse, the person who inspired him. History does not record who this was.\n\nHere is the text of the sonnet.\n\nHow can my Muse want subject to invent,\nWhile thou dost breathe, that pour\'st into my\nverse\nThine own sweet argument, too excellent\nFor every vulgar paper to rehearse?\nO! give thyself the thanks, if aught in me\nWorthy perusal stand against thy sight;\nFor who\'s so dumb that cannot write to thee,\nWhen thou thyself dost give invention light?\nBe thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth\nThan those old nine which rimers invocate;\nAnd he that calls on thee, let him bring forth\nEternal numbers to outlive long date.\nIf my slight Muse do please these curious\ndays,\nThe pain be mine, but thine shall be the\npraise.

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