The sonnet reads like a rap sheet of the author. He lists the things that he has done wrong to show that he fully understands what he has done wrong and the impact of his actions on his relationship. In lines 5 and 6 of the sonnet, it states, "That I have frequent been with the unknown minds and given to time your own dear-purchased right." This means that the poet has been with people for unknown reasons and devoted the time and loyalty that belongs to his love over to them. This right of time belongs to his love because it is the return gift that she gets for giving herself to him. That's why it is so hurting when he devoted it to someone else, someone unimportant even.

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In lines 9 and 10, the sonnet states, "Book both my willfulness and errors down and on just proof surmise accumulate." The author is saying here that he wants his love to mark down his disposition to be headstrong and stubborn. He wants her to mark down his lust and desire to sin. He wants her to know that these are his sins and his offenses. As horrible as they are, he wants her to realize that he recognizes his wrongfulness and his mistakes. The author now in the sonnet is showing his love that he is sorry with out apologizing. In my own words, he's saying "Look, I've down this and I've done that.... and they were all really bad." I'm not saying that his love is accepting this form of apology or even recognizing it as an apology, but I think that this is his way of apologizing without exactly saying so.

Sonnet 117 is related to other sonnets written by Shakespeare about disloyalty. Sonnets 109 - 113 cover the topic and deal with betrayal. Shakespeare has always dealt with the idea of truth and honesty and loyalty (or lack there of) in his sonnets. In Sonnets 33 - 36, he writes about disloyalty and separation, sonnets 40 - 42 deal with betrayal, and like part of 117, sonnet 105 deals with constancy. These are all topics that are involved in relationships. They are things that each person of the relationship must deal with and learn to either embrace or stray away from.

Although the sonnet does contain several admissions by the author, nothing really ever gets into detail. What happened when he "set sail"? Who were these p

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