Chronological dating possibilities: According to The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), some Sonnets were circulating in manuscript by 1598; the only printed edition in Shakespeare lifetime was published in 1609. Sonnet 145 may have been written in the early to mid-1580's; Sonnet 107 seems to belong to 1603.
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