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  1. Apr 2016
    1. Let them say more than like of hearsay well;     I will not praise that purpose not to sell.

      In the sonnet, the poet is speaking of another who over-exaggerates. Here, he is basically saying "I give up, let him do him, but I speak the truth only." This is the volta because at first, he was hostile and insulting the other poet, but now, he lets him be because he knows that in his heart he is better.