In sonnet 140, Shakespeare seems to be warning the Dark Lady about how she acts. He is telling her to watch her actions or he will speak ill out of her. "Be as wise as thou art cruel; do not press/ My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain,/ Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express/ The manner of my pity-wanting pain," Shakespeare is telling the dark lady that she needs to learn to keep her self in check and that his patience is waning. If she does not get herself under control, he will use his words to put her in her place. "For if I should despair I should grow mad,/ An din my madness might speak ill of thee,/ Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad/ Mad slanders by mad ears believed be," With these lines the poet is saying that if she should make him angry and he is forced to speak ill of her, the result would not be good for her, as the world is searching for bad things to believe. In order for her to keep this from happening she must control herself and only have eyes for him, "Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide."

In sonnet 149, Shakespeare seems to turn on himself and criticize himself. "When I against myself with thee partake?/ Do I not think on thee when I forgot/ Am of myself, all-tyrant, for thy sake?" He is asking himself why he does not pay attention to his needs. He is not taking care of himself, he is neglecting himself. "On Whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon?/ Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I spend/ Revenge upon myself with present moan?" When something goes wrong, or someone scowls at him, Shakespeare is asking himself who he turns to when this happens. He rhetorically asks, 'Do I not turn upon myself and blame myself.' With the last two lines it makes me wonder if Shakespeare is questioning his ability to love, "But love, hate on; for now I know thy mind./ Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind."

In sonnet 152, Shakespeare is scolding the Dark Lady for her breaking her oaths. He is saying that although he himself has broken some oaths, hers have been far worse. "In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,/ But thou art twice forsworn to me love swearing." She must have sworn to love him and she is more at fault them he is. "But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee/ When I break twenty? I am perjured most,/ For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,/ And all my honest faith in thee is lost" With the these lines it seems that Shakespeare has either sworn false oaths or the Dark lady has, and as a result, faith has been lost. After this he continues on and says, "For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,/ Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy,/ And to enlighten thee gave eyes to blindness,/ Or made them swear against the thing they see./" These lines make me think that Shakespeare has sworn oaths to maybe make the Dark Lady appear better then she is? This sonnet leaves me with a lot of questions actually.