Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase

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In the first Sonnet of the generally accepted and originally published series, William Shakespeare tells a young man of unnamed identity that he is wasting his beauty on himself and depriving the world of its due by not having children, and asks him to change his ways. This is also the first of the Fair Youth Sonnets and thus the first of the Procreation Sonnets and so it sets the tone for the opening sequence.

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