sentences:  Gray continues with the next group of critics being Pembrokists, dating the sonnets from 1598 to 1603, the dark lady being Mary Fitton, and the Rival Poet being Chapman.Gray believes, following with Sir Sidney Lee, that the sonnets are literary exercises, it is important to figure who the dark lady is, that W.H.is not the youth addressed in the first 125 sonnets, the sonnets are in no chronological order, and he had no idea who the rival poet was.