Sketches & unfinished work can be so appealing, sometimes more so than highly finished work: this is JW Waterhouse's "Mary Physick, the Artist's Step-sister" c.1880. https://t.co/7UINZXylY7 (#ShakepeareSunday, from King Lear, "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well")

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Where is our usual manager of mirth?
What revels are in hand? Is there no play,
To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?

- Midsummer Night's Dream [V, 1]

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"Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this, my love was my decay."

[last lines of Sonnet 80] [pic: [#Violetology]

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