シェイクスピア・ソネット鑑賞短歌82: Tanka for Sonnet 82
82
他の詩人 修辞できみを 塗りたくる
わが詩はその美 そのまま写(うつ)す
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair wert truly sympathized
In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better used
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering day.
And do so, love; yet when they have devised
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair wert truly sympathized
In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better used
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.
キーワード訳注
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst (=may; thouが主語のとき) without attaint (打ち傷) o’erlook (=overlook)
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art ([古・詩] beの主語が2人称・単数 thouの時の直説法現在形). as fair in knowledge as in hue (色合, 色調),
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering day.
And do so, love; yet when they have devised
What strained (strain 張る, 引っぱる) touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair wert ([古] thouが主語の時の単数直説法・仮定法過去形) truly sympathized
In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross (全体の; 著しい; 下品な) painting might be better used
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.
