 Thus the poet is "whipping up the young man's flagging affection.Behind lines 9-12 flickers a reminiscence of the situation of "Hero and Leander"" (Rowse 115).The situation becomes even more clear when we read Sonnet 57, in which the poet, now very worried about the young man's lustful nature, asks him outright, "Being your slave, what should I do but tend/Upon the hours and times of your desire?