Chaucer the Rival Poet in Shakespeares Sonnets a New Theory
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The alternation of the words " love " and " hate " both by Chaucer and Shakespeare is very striking. It should be noted that in Sonnet 145 Shakespeare is constantly referring to the woman of dark deeds, of whom, in Sonnet 144, he says : " The worser spirit a woman coloured ill To win me soon to hell, " while Chaucer in reference to women of similar character says: " Such soules goeth to the devil of hell. " Roman, B 5810. Here it will be noted in Sonnet 144 that the better love, the love of com...fort, is a man an angel. RESEMBLANCES IN THEORY 29 In the Roman, A 916, Cupid is referred to as an angel : " He seemed as he were an angel That down were comen fro' hevene clere. " It will be suggested later on, that Cupid in many cases is the " love " about which Shakespeare is writing. Here compare also the lines from Troilus and Cressida of Chaucer, Book IV. 1552: " That ilke day that ich untrewe be To Troylus myn owene herte free, That thou retorne backwarde to thy welle, And I with body and soule sinke in helle.
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