1. I was delighted by the response to yesterday& #39;s posting of Shakespeare& #39;s Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows...

2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn& #39;t much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1.