In the end, Quicksands hopes that a night of undisturbed sleep will restore his bride's modesty; Millicent has the last word with a closing couplet : " [ . . . ] to bed, to bed, / No bride so glad to keep her maidenhead ."
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Shakespeare's "'sonnet 117 "'was first published in 1609 . It uses similar imagery to Sonnet 116 and expands on the challenge in the closing couplet ( " If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved " ).
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Stephen Booth, professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, notes that the " dividing line between the procreation sonnets and sonnets 18-126 " has a curious " imperceptibility, " but he goes on to assert that Sonnet 15's closing line " As he [ i . e . Time ] takes from you, I engraft you new " ( 15.14 ) is the " first of several traditional claims for the immortalizing power of verse . " This theme of poetic immortality is continued in later sonnets, including sonnet 17's closing couplet " You should live twice : in [ your child ] and in my rhyme, " in sonnet 18's last few lines " Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade / When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st . / So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee, " and sonnet 19's final line " My love shall in my verse live ever young ."
