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“Being your slave, what should I do but tend / Upon the hours and times of your desire?”

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The speaker describes what service to a beloved actually costs: making another person's whole day your occupation. The word slave is doing real work in the poem, and Shakespeare leaves it uncomfortable rather than softening it into romance.

Source: Sonnet 57

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