As Stephen Booth notes, the sonnet is carelessly printed, and its emendation history begins with the 1640 quarto.

Stephen Booth brings up an interesting point that other critics had not really mentioned.

Stephen Booth argues that the editing of the comma "has no effect on the logic of the line."

Stephen Booth considers the sonnets in the context of Shakespeare's personal sexuality.

Stephen Booth adds that Ephesians 5 was a regular source of inspiration for Shakespeare.

Stephen Booth notes that the use of "bating" in this sense is not attested before the nineteenth century.

Stephen Booth, who writes with a language-based approach, has one very interesting note.

Stephen Booth (born 1952) is an English crime-writer.

Stephen Booth bowled the first ball of the season's last over and Bore scored a boundary.

As Stephen Booth notes, the poem works on a series of "shows": the word appears in four separate lines of the sonnet.