sentences:  Sonnet 144
  
  Sonnet 144 (along with Sonnet 138) was published in the "Passionate Pilgrim" (1599).Shortly before this, Francis Meres referred to Shakespeare's Sonnets in his handbook of Elizabethan poetry, "Palladis Tamia, or Wit's Treasurie", published in 1598, which was frequently talked about in the literary centers of London taverns.