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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

What does it mean to be “in disgrace” with “men’s eyes”?
How are men looking at him?

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He compares his own beauty, wealth, and status to those around him—noting his “disgrace” in “men's eyes,” wishing he were “featured [attractive] like him,” and envious of “this man's art and that man's scope.” The speaker clearly measures his own self-worth in relation to others.

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