The following sonnet, published in 1609, is addressed to a friend of the speaker. 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 has ‘scaped this sorrow, (5)
Come in the rearward of a conquered 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; (10)
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.
2.Which of the following best describes the speaker’s present situation?
(5 Points)

a. He has recently lost faith in his friend.

b. He is suffering from various problems.

c. He has barely overcome many misfortunes.

d. He has almost lost his will to live.

e. He has seen his fortunes at court decline.

11 d

12 a

13 d

14 b

explanation:

hello mate, can you add the lines 206-247?

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.