Sight for Sore Eyes

The Shakespeare challenge for this week features words that are said to be coined by Mr. Shakespeare. Today is Eye-sore.

I only found two examples of the use of eye-sore in his works.

The following is from his poem Rape of Lucrece.

'Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive,
And be an eye-sore in my golden coat;
Some loathsome dash the herald will contrive,
To cipher me how fondly I did dote;
That my posterity, shamed with the note
Shall curse my bones, and hold it for no sin
To wish that I their father had not bin.

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