rowse identifies anti-catholic sentiment in sonnet 124, taking "the fools of time" in the last lines of this sonnet "to this i witness call the fools of time, which die for goodness who have lived for crime." to refer to the many jesuits who were executed for treason in the years 1594–95. in regard to this, john klause of hofstra university accepts that shakespeare intended "the fools of time" in the sonnet to represent executed jesuits, but contends that the poet, by alluding to executed jesuit robert southwell's "epistle of comfort" and its glorification of martyrdom, sympathises with them. klause maintains that southwell's influence is also identifiable in "titus andronicus". a later assessment places klause's interpretation as "against most recent trends".