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Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite But in the onset come; so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might, And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 90 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Sonnet XC - Then hate me when thou wilt", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 14 (1944-7) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Grace Chadbourne , "Sonnet XC" [ soprano and piano ], from Shakespeare Song Cycle, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XC", 1865 [ medium voice or high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) , no title, appears in Шекспир Уильям - сонеты (Shekspir Uil'jam - sonety) = Sonnets of William Shakespeare, no. 90 ; composed by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 90, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 121
E quindi odiami pure quanto vorrai; fallo pure ora; ora, che il mondo è incline a contrastarmi in tutto, piegami, unendoti alle offese della Sorte nera, ma non farmi cadere, in ultimo, sconfitto. E quando il mio cuore avrà retto a un siffatto tormento, non infierire in retroguardia su una pena ormai vinta, non sommare un mattino piovoso a una notte di vento per prolungare una volontaria disfatta. Se vuoi lasciarmi, non farlo alla fine, dopo che mi è stato inflitto qualche minore dolore, ma fallo al primo assalto; che io possa assaggiare fin dal principio il dolore peggiore. Così ogni altra pena, che oggi dolore mi appare, difronte alla tua perdita, non sembrerà più tale.
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Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 90
This text was added to the website: 2025-07-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 116