sentences:  The first reference is to William Shakespeare as the speaker of the poem, the second is representative of a person's wants or wishes; and it also carries the sense of a sex-desire which was a common usage in Shakespeare's time.The speaker begins the sonnet by saying that if the subject's soul reproves her, then because it is not a conscious thought, she can still swear to her soul that the speaker is her William.This is significant because modern historians have tentatively identified the dark lady of the sonnets as Emilia Lanier, who was married to Shakespeare's friend Will Lanier.