ooing his [the young man's] purity with her foul pride" my "female evil temptheth my better angel from my side." In these lines Shakespeare demonstrates that desire has not only consumed the speaker, but it is also entangling the beautiful young man in the dark lady's inescapable web of sexual seduction. By using such words as "foul pride," Shakespeare is most likely referring to the dark lady's sensuous body as the bait for which the young man will take in her wicked game of seduction. However, though this affair will most likely result in the corruption of the speaker's saint into a devil, it is clear that his desire struck mind will
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