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Investigation of Sonnet 154   The little Love-god lying once snoozing Laid close by his heart-arousing brand, While numerous fairies that vow'd modest life to keep Came stumbling by; however in her lady hand The most attractive votary took up that fire Which numerous armies of genuine hearts had warm'd, Thus the General of hot want Was dozing by a virgin hand disarm'd. This brand she extinguished in a cool well by, Which from Love's fire took heat interminable, Growing a shower and empowering cure For men diseas'd. Be that as it may, I, my special lady's thrall, Came there for fix; and this by that I demonstrate: Love's fire warms water, water cools not love.     This piece seems, by all accounts, to be another form of 153 instead of one of an arrangement. These two works, two renderings of a similar ides, could either demonstrate or invalidate Shakespeare's initiation. Just twice did Shakespeare modify any of his pieces, both 138 and 144 show up somewhat adjusted in _The Passionate Pilgrim_. These are proof of Shakespeare's rewritings, however the main issue is on the off chance that one is out to demonstrate the creation on these grounds, over-update stays a factor; that is, Shakespeare revised the two poems changing just a couple of words and not the whole work. These appear to be the issues with refering to Shakespeaare as their creator, yet similarly negating him as the creator. If I somehow managed to contend for Shakespeare's initiation, I would connect the assistance of shower with being an inference to The Wife of Bath's Tale in Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_. Shakespeare utilized Chaucer as a source in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ (fro m The Kinght's Tale and The Miller's Tale), _Troilus and Cressida_ (from _Troilus and Criseyde) and _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ (from The Knight's Tale). Seeing that Shakespeare utilized Chaucer as a kind of perspective in the past for help, I assume the assistance of shower could be a tribut to Chaucer and in this way a potential source or implication. In any case, this remains on unsubstantial grounds because of its chance just significance a water-filled bowl.