Written for the SeedComp 2024, at which it was awarded Best Story, and also got stickers for Best Characters, Best Ending Variations, Finest Harpsichord, and Most Aggressively English Characters.

The seeds I used:

Reverse a poem
Palates

Content warnings
Mildly nsfw for kissing and sexual references, including marital infidelity. In some playthroughs, a moment of violence. Occasional well-concealed snippets of Literature.

Notes
The core poem it responds to is Sonnet 128. But a certain amount of playful  imagining of the characters of the rest of the sequence snuck in too . Looking for a definitive answer to the identities of Shakespeare's "dark lady" and "fair youth" is a fool's errand; they're literary constructs. But I've run with the thought that they may as well have been Henry Wriothesley, and the wife of John Florio (whose name history does not record, but I'm not the first to use Aline). Jack emerged from the poem's "saucy jacks" of the harpsichord. 

Feedback, bugs and comments
All gratefully received.

Credits and acknowledgments
Built in Twine Sugarcube on the foundations of Manonamora’s Ready-to-Use Sugarcube Tweego Folder;
Version 1.1 also uses Manonamora's Simple Book Template;
Colour palette Earthenware by Charm Cochran via the SeedComp.

It would not have been possible without consulting Manonamora’s 100% Good Twine Sugarcube Guide which is, as advertised, pretty good; the Twine Sugarcube documentation; and the brilliant Twine Games discord channel and NeoInteractives discord.

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