"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun: Coral is far more red than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses seel in her cheeks:
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
Igrant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare."
- William Shakespeare
Today the word mistress has a negative connotation and is used to refer to an adulterous woman. What did mistress mean as used in
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130"?
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a woman schoolteacher
the woman the speaker loves
the woman the speaker works for
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