The second quatrain reveals how the friend became ensnared in the first place. In Elizabethan legal terms, a "surety" is someone who co-signs a loan, agreeing to take on the debt if the primary borrower defaults. The speaker admits that his friend approached the Dark Lady merely to advocate or "intercede" on the speaker's behalf. However, her beauty and charm proved to be a legal trap; by signing this metaphorical emotional contract, the friend accidentally bound himself to her directly. 4. The Beauty Usurer
The result is that 134 sones equates to roughly . This calculation shows that while the sone value is large, the corresponding decibel level, while still quite loud, is not as astronomically high as the sone number might initially suggest. sone 134
"So, now I have confess'd that he is thine, And I myself am mortgag'd to thy will, Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine Thou wilt restore, to be my comfort still." — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 134 1. The Legal and Financial Metaphors The second quatrain reveals how the friend became