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- ¹ The conflicts between the claims of friend and mistress on the affections, and the griefs incident to the transfer of a mistress’s attentions to a friend—recondite topics which are treated in Shakespeare’s sonnets—seem no uncommon themes of Renaissance poetry. Clement Marot, whose work was very familiar to Spenser and other Elizabethan writers, in complicated verse headed ‘A celle qui souhaita Marot aussi amoureux d’elle qu’un sien Amy’ (*(Ewver, 1565?, p. 437*), describes himself in a situation resembling that which Shakespeare assigns to the ‘friend’ of his sonnets. Being solicited in love by his comrade’s mistress, Marot warns her of the crime against friendship to which she prompts him, and, less complacent than Shakespeare’s ‘friend’, rejects her invitation on the ground that he has only half a heart to offer her, the other half being absorbed by friendship.
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