id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt shakespeare-sonnets_121 shakespeare-sonnets_121 .txt text/plain 123 8 88 CXXI. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd, 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd, When not to be receives reproach of being; And the just pleasure lost, which is sodeem'd Not by our feeling, but by others ' seeing: For why should others ' false adulterate eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good? No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own: I may be straight though they themselves be bevel; By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown; Unless this general evil they maintain, All men are bad and in their badness reign. ./cache/shakespeare-sonnets_121.txt ./txt/shakespeare-sonnets_121.txt