Theme:      Ménage à trois
Content:    The sonnet where the Young Man and the Dark Lady are explicitly brought together and both betray the author by having an affair with each other.

• Possible pun on two in despair.
• man right fair recalls the earlier sonnets, especially Sonnets 1-17 that speak of the Young Man being "much too fair".
• Possible pun on still as in "continue" and a still as used in distilling spirits.
• coloured ill recalls the black complexion of the woman that "was not counted fair".
• ill is represented explicitly and embedded in other words such as still, evil, devil and Till but also phonetically in angel, hell, angel, angel, tell, angel and hell.

• Possible further pun on two in To.
• The ill suggested to be in the fair man via the word angel is now explicitly suggested by him turning into a devil.

• The author cannot bring himself to explicitly accuse his male friend of having an affair with the woman. Even if he really does know it he claims he can only Suspect and guess.
• The rhyme of fiend with friend shows what a thin line there is between the two.
• Sexual euphemism in the line I guess one angel in another's hell.

• The evil of Q2 morphs to an anagram of it in live.
• The two are now both referred to as angels, a good one and a bad one.
• The author suggests that he will not know the detail of his male friend and female mistress's relationship until the fire (sexual ardour) between the two is exhausted.
• fire joins the friend and fiend.