Analysis of Sonnet 118How, to sharpen our appetites,With greedy compounds we solicit our palate;How to prevent our invisible diseases We are tired of avoiding disease when we let's purify: Even so, being full of your never cloying sweetness, I framed my diet with bitter sauces; and, sick of well-being, I found a kind of opportunity to get sick before there was a real need. Thus the politics of love, to anticipate evils that were not, grew to become insured defects, and brought to medicine a healthy state which, a degree of goodness, would be cured of evil. :But from there I learn, and I find the lesson true, that drugs poison the one who has become so sick of you. This is another sonnet that Hieatt found to share some similarities with Spencer Roma's Ruines of: "In Sonnets 118 the presumption of health 'rank in goodness' which anticipates and thus precipitates disease mirrors, first and foremost, Ruines 10 - the ' rank seed' which destroys itself - and, secondly, Ruines23 - the Roman people 'impatient' of the weak desires of pleasure,' becoming matter of their times, 'as in a gross disease of the vicious body / Soon it grows through the superfluity of 'humor'." possible source of this sonnet, let's now move on to the paraphrase of the sonnet. 1-2: 'To make our appetites (for taste) more aware, we convince our palate by ingesting stimulating dishes'; 3-4: 'In order to prevent unexpected illness, we purge ourselves [note Ingram/jRedpath, "Old-style purges were very powerful, and could actually make people feel extremely sick"], to make that illness feign, but you become ill by doing so'; 5-6: 'This being so, I have divided my diet into unpleasant dishes [vile company] from being (so) full of your substantial sweetness'; 7-8: 'And, overindulging in happiness, I found a juxtaposition [requisition] of becoming ill (due to purification) because I needed, 1) sickness, or 2) your love [or both]'; 9-10: «It is therefore a cunning strategy [almost too cunning] in love, of anticipating evildoers who are not always thought of, who turn into confirmed faults»; 11-12: 'And make available to medicine a "state of health" which, gross [almost with a glutton's sense] of goodness, would be cured by evildoers:' 13-14: 'But from this I learn, and find the lesson true [moral], that the drugs that poisoned him [identity unknown; possibly in general] are the same ones that made me sick (love) for you'.