...spirits do suggest me still. My better angel is a man right fair, My worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her fair pride; And whether that my angel...

...See Ven. 651 and Luc. 37. 248 My better angel is a man right fair, My worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her fair pride. And whether that my angel...

...beloved. In Sonnet 144, we see a speaker divided between same-sex and opposite-sex erotic commitments: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like...angel is a man right fair; The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would...

...her as well. So when he had not come, she'd read on: Two loves I have of comfort and despair, That like two spirits do suggest me still. The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. Flames had risen in her cheeks. The poem was about her, but not for her. Colored ill?...

...understand Elizabethan slang. Let's see if I can recall the sonnet. I believe I remember it fairly well: Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like...angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour* d ill. Of course, love' in Early Modern parlance, could mean 'friendship.' He's admitting to...