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What are 3 ways Shakespeare is insulting his mistress in the sonnet?

In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare insults his mistress in the following ways:

1. He compares her to a "bad eye".

2. He says she is "black as ebony" and "as white as snow".

3. He says she is "perfumed like a civet" and has "breasts as dun as dove's".

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