Language Associations and Connections in Shakespeare’s Sonne

In Sonnet I, I noted the use of the words increase, herald, and content:

From fairest creatures we desire increase1,

That thereby beauty's rose might never die,

But as the riper should by time decease,

His tender heir might bear his memory:

But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,

Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,

And only herald2 to the gaudy spring,

Within thine own bud buriest thy content3,

In this way, Shakespeare uses the word content in Henry VI, Part 2:

Also, Known through long acquaintance; long familiar. (Dictionary.com, n.pag). Under this description, Shakespeare uses old in Macbeth:

Her words clad with wisdom's majesty,

Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,

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