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Read These Lines from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100 Where Art Thou, Muse That Thou Forget" To Speak of That Which Gives the Might? Spend'st

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Read these lines from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100 Where art thou, Muse that thou forget" To speak of that which gives the might? Spend'st thou thy fury or. come Darkening thy power to lend b. light? Return, forgetful Muse, and straight. deem in numbers time so idly spent Sing to the mar that doth thy lays esteem And gives thy pen moth skill and argument love's sweet face survey. me have any wrinkle graven there, If any, be a satire to decay. And make Time's spoils despised every where Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife upports the definition of Muse "1 poetry"? "where -100, Muse" "that doth thy lays esteem "darkening thy power" ) "thou prevent'st his scythe"

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The line that best supports the definition of Muse as relating to poetry is **"that doth thy lays esteem."** "Lays" is an archaic word for songs or poems. Therefore, someone who esteems, or values, the Muse's "lays" is appreciating their poetry.