O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Shakespeare invites us to notice how the truth of acting, the truth of visible presentation on the stage, adds to the wonder of poetry, giving life to its loveliness, and actual reality to its ideal form. And yet, in the 67th Sonnet, Shakespeare calls upon Willie Hughes to abandon the stage with its artificiality, its false mimic life of painted face and unreal costume,its immoral influences and suggestions, its remoteness from the true world of noble action and sincere utterance.