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* A shorter version of this paper was presented in the Linguistics Section of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast annual meeting in Eugene, Oregon, November 1982. I would like to thank Julian Boyd, Zelda Boyd, and Elizabeth Traugott for their encouragement. I would also like to express my gratitude to Gary Holland for his help in all stages of the writing of this paper. 1. In this paper, I use the edited version of Sonnet 129 which appears with the Quarto version on the facing page in Booth (1977:110-111). I reproduce the two versions below:
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