<P> The meter demands that line 4's "unlearnèd" be pronounced with three syllables . </P> <P> Sonnet 138 is one of twenty sonnets published in The Passionate Pilgrim (Dark Lady) collection (1599) by Jaggard . In Shakespeare's Sonnets, Carl D. Atkins stresses that although the collection title page reads "By W. Shakespeare", it features a number of poems known to belong to other authors . "Commentators have debated", he states, "whether the version of Sonnet 138 in the Passionate Pilgrim represents an early draft by Shakespeare or a poor memorial reconstruction by someone who read the version later printed in the Quarto (or some other draft)" (340). John Roe's analysis in the Cambridge collection of Shakespeare's poetry, The Poems, adds a layer of mystery to the sonnet authorship when he mentions the canceled title page of Jaggard's 1612 edition, which bears Heywood's name (58). </P> <P> The Passionate Pilgrim went through two separate printings during 1599 . Sonnet 138 is the first poem in The Passionate Pilgrim, followed thereafter by Shakespeare's Sonnet 144 . The poem, as it appeared in 1599, with substantive differences from the 1609 Quarto in italics: </P> <P> When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unskilful in the world's false forgeries . Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although I know my years be past the best, I smiling credit her false - speaking tongue, Outfacing faults in love with love's ill rest . But wherefore says my love that she is young? And wherefore say not I that I am old? O love's best habit is a flattering tongue, And age, in love, loves not to have years told . Therefore I'll lie with love, and love with me, Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be . </P>

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