Tradefull Merchants is actually Sonnet XV in Spenser‘s Amoretti and is the base for Shakespeare‘s Sonnet 130. Both poets declare love for their mistresses, however there‘s a difference: Spenser‘s sonnet represents the conventional approach of glorifying the woman he loves, describing her as extremely beautiful and so on; Shakespeare takes the opposite approach: In Sonnet 130, he uses anti-hyperbolical figures of speech — this sonnet is addressed to the Dark Lady who isn‘t the most beautiful lady in the world, but is beautiful enough for him and he loves her. Sonnet 130 is a parody of the conventional love poetry.