Herbert and his brother were the dedicatees of Shakespeare's First Folio of works Herbert was also born in 1580, and he therefore would have been a young man around the time the sonnets were likely composed. William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, a patron of the arts. Assuming that the sonnets are indeed autobiographical (an assumption not given credence by some) and that the characters described therein do in fact have mundane counterparts, two prime contenders have been put forth for the role of the sonnets' fair lord. The absence of explicit identifying characteristics has given way to much controversy over the fair lord's real-world analogue - if any.
Sonnets 1-126 tell the story of the narrator's unrelenting affection for a young and beautiful man, a "fair lord," to whom these sonnets are addressed.
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