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What is 'uneared womb'?



 
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What is 'uneared womb'? #1 (permalink) Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:35 am   What is 'uneared womb'?		  
Hi,

Could you please help me with the following fragment of a sonnet?
Quote:
For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb,
Of his self-love to stop posterity?


I would reword it as:

For where you can find a woman whose uneared womb is so fair that she disdains your husbandry (man's) tillage?
Or whoever is so fond of his self-love to stop raising up seed that he will become his own tomb?

1. Is that correct?
2. Is 'uneared womb' = uncultivated womb = vestal virgin?
3. Why 'self-love'? Is it = cheeseparing?

Thank you!

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What is 'uneared womb'? #2 (permalink) Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:34 pm   What is 'uneared womb'?		  
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I would reword it as 'How can she be fair if she has not produced babies? And what person is so fond of death that he does not want to have children?'

1-- HERE'S more than I would be able to come up with myself, concerning some Shakespeare apocrypha.

2-- No, egocentrism.
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