This version of Shakespeare's famous sonnet was apparently modified to evoke loyalty to the monarchy during the English Civil War.
Billy Wilson/Flickr One of the libraries at Oxford University's Bodleian Library, where a handwritten copy of the sonnet was found.
Lia Veronese, a researcher at Oxford University, was browsing through manuscripts in the Bodleian Library archives when she discovered a handwritten copy of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 that had, however, been significantly rewritten.
“When I looked through the manuscript, the poem seemed to me to be a strange interpretation of Sonnet 116,” Veronese said in an Oxford press release.
Public DomainPortrait of William Sheck
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