Note 119a — VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS
Reading edition
Shakespeare adopted this phraseology of Sidney literally in both the play and the sonnet; while Sidney’s further conceit that the lady’s eyes are in ‘this mourning weed’ in order ‘to honour all their deaths who for her bleed’ is reproduced in Shakespeare’s Sonnet cxxxii.—one of the two under consideration—where he tells his mistress that her eyes ‘have put on black’ to become ‘loving mourners’ of him who is denied her love.