![]() ![]() ![]() Whom first the cramp of hope does tear, And then the palsy shakes of fear The soul may carp about feeling sick and then getting well again, but the body endures pains that no medicine can even touch. After kicking up the tone with some second-person aggression, it ratchets up the subject to a whole new level. Just look at that accusing "thou" planted in the middle of line 32 like a punch in the chops. The body has turned on the soul directly. The body wrestles the mic back-after all, it's got arms, right?-and rebuts the soul on the same subject: sickness.BODY But physic yet could never reach The maladies thou me dost teach
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