[
  {
    "title": "Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd",
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "lines": [
      "'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,",
      "When not to be receives reproach of being;",
      "And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem'd",
      "Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:",
      "For why should others' false adulterate eyes",
      "Give salutation to my sportive blood?",
      "Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,",
      "Which in their wills count bad what I think good?",
      "No, I am that I am, and they that level",
      "At my abuses reckon up their own:",
      "I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;",
      "By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;",
      "  Unless this general evil they maintain,",
      "  All men are bad and in their badness reign."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]