While in sonnet 133 the love triangle first image is created around the idea of love slavery, in sonnet 144 through the Christian model of the good angel and bad spirit, where the speaker has a central position among his lover though already hints an unexpected connection between the lady and the young men. At the beginning of the first quatrain the speaker declares ‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair’ he affirms his position as the one who possess his lovers’ love. This attitude continues along the sonnet and reflects in the possessive adjectives my when he refers to the lady as ‘my female evil’ and his friend as ‘my better angle’ on quatrain two until the end where he still calls them ‘my bad angel’ and ‘my good one’. It seems almost
