However, in the couplet, the speaker proclaims that "by heav'n," he believes his love is as rare and priceless "as any she belied with false compare"—that is, any love in which false comparisons are used to praise the beauty of the loved one. This kind of love is an illusion, since no two things are completely identical; therefore, any claim that one thing is more valuable than another is a falsehood. Shakespeare here is criticizing such false comparisons as those made by Sonnet 126, where the poet claims that his love is as great as the Sun for its brightness or the Ocean for its depth. The beloved in this sonnet is a beautiful woman who has been praised for her talents by other poets. Thus, Sonnet 130 can be seen as Shakespeare's response to these earlier poems where false comparisons were used to praise the beauty of the women loved by the poets. In conclusion, Sonnet 130 can be interpreted as saying that the love expressed in these earlier poems was an illusion because it was based on something that was inherently flawed—namely, false comparisons of the loved ones' attributes with those of other people or things.