...is really a kind of censorious sarcasm. This is not an easy position to maintain. In LVII the lines But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought Save, where you are how happy you make those have an authenticity of moral force which is incompatible with irony. It is impossible to read them...

...you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu. Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be,...make those. So true a fool is love that in your will, Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. All three sonnets are addressed to someone, and therefore...