The lines that describe
this puzzling ability in the speaker's beloved to control his reasoning
faculties are “Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,/That in the very
refuse of thy deeds/There is such strength and warrantise of skill,/That, in my
mind, thy worst all best exceeds?”
<span>In Shakespeare’s 150th
sonnet the puzzling ability is described as the capacity to make bad things look
good in her and to perform the most worthless actions so skillfully that the
speaker thinks that her worst is better than anyone else’s best.</span>
