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Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,—
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

What is the central idea of the first quatrain?

My mistress is unattractive.
My mistress is beautiful.
My mistress has a natural beauty.
My mistress is not as beautiful as nature.

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D: My mistress is not as beautiful as nature.

Step-by-step explanation:

Edge 2021

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User Neves
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Answer:

d

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e2021

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