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Sonnet 137
Love , you blind fool, what are you doing to my eyes that's keeping them from accurately seeing what I look at? My eyes know what beauty is, and they see who has it, yet they decide that the worst woman is the best. Love, if my vision has been distorted because I look at her with too much bias, spending all my time staring at this woman who sleeps with every man, why have you used my misperceptions as a trap to fool my heart, so that I love the wrong person? Why should my heart think that she could belong to one man when my heart knows she's available to the whole world? Or why should my eyes witness her promiscuity but act like it's not true, putting a good face on an ugly truth? My heart and my eyes have been completely mistaken about the truth, and now they both love this unfaithful disease of a woman.


IS THIS MAN SAYING THAT HIS LOVE IS UGLY, BUT HE LOVES HER ANYWAYS, OR IS HE SAYING THAT HE'S IN LOVE WITH A DIRTY WHORE?


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Sonnet 137
Love , you blind fool, what are you doing to my eyes that's keeping them from accurately seeing what I look at? My eyes know what beauty is, and they see who has it, yet they decide that the worst woman is the best. Love, if my vision has been distorted because I look at her with too much bias, spending all my time staring at this woman who sleeps with every man, why have you used my misperceptions as a trap to fool my heart, so that I love the wrong person? Why should my heart think that she could belong to one man when my heart knows she's available to the whole world? Or why should my eyes witness her promiscuity but act like it's not true, putting a good face on an ugly truth? My heart and my eyes have been completely mistaken about the truth, and now they both love this unfaithful disease of a woman.


IS THIS MAN SAYING THAT HIS LOVE IS UGLY, BUT HE LOVES HER ANYWAYS, OR IS HE SAYING THAT HE'S IN LOVE WITH A DIRTY WHORE?

He is saying he is in love with "a dirty whore" (in your fine words). Later on in his sonnets (144), he even speaks of how she is sleeping with a good friend of his.

He's saying both. Love makes any inconvenient fact irrelevant - love is blind.