- Year Published: 1609 - Language: English - Country of Origin:
England - Source: Shakespeare, W. The sonnets. In R. G. White
(Ed.), The complete works of William Shakespeare. New York:
Sully and Kleinteich. - Flesch–Kincaid Level: 11.0 - Word Count:
122 Shakespeare, W. (1609). Sonnet 70. The Sonnets (Lit2Go
Edition). Retrieved May 23, 2013, from Shakespeare, William.
"Sonnet 70." The Sonnets. Lit2Go Edition. 1609. Web. <>. May 23,
2013. William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 70," The Sonnets, Lit2Go
Edition, (1609), accessed May 23, 2013,. That thou art blamed
shall not be thy defect, For slander’s mark was ever yet the
fair, The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in
heaven’s sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but
approve, Thy worth the greater being wooed of time, For canker
vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou present’st a pure
unstained prime. Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days,
Either not assailed, or victor being charged, Yet this thy
praise cannot be so thy praise, To tie u