...dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed And give him light that it was blinded by. 85 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched...ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, 90 That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more...

...confers on the lover a wisdom which sterile book-learning does not confer on the "continual plodder". Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. (I, i, 86-7) In the Renascence period there were prevalent two sharply contrasted attitudes to love...

...wanting a helping hand in the Woolshop. Likely, though, Shakespeare was glad to drop from school — Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. Useful to plodders, school is no place for genius. The registers for Stratford pupils in Shakespeare's...