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One cannot read Shakespeare’s Sonnets coherently without understanding the framing story, which is based on Arthur Golding’s translation of the story of Narcissus and Echo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Lyriop takes her beloved Narcissus to visit Tyresias, the blind seer, to ask about his future.