莎翁的十四行诗汉译国内经常见到的就有不少种译文，而文言译文却并不多见。起码在敝人是如此。日前，浏览下载的《翻译艺术教程》，读到第76和第116首译文，转帖于下，可以与其它译文相比较。
文言文译莎士比亚十四行诗（第76首和第116首）
SONNET 76
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth and where they did proceed?
O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
文言文译莎士比亚十四行诗（第76首和第116首）
SONNET 76
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth and where they did proceed?
O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent: