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Oxford was born in 1550, and was between 40 and 53 years old when he presumably would have written the sonnets.
Even though the average life expectancy of Elizabethans was short, being between 26 and 39 was not considered old.
In spite of this, age and growing older are recurring themes in the Sonnets, for example, in Sonnets 138 and 37.
On several occasions, the author of the sonnets also described himself as lame, such as in Sonnets 37 and 89.
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