reasonably be restricted to: ‘Made In pursut and in possession as follows’: since it is the first line of the sestet, it is more likely to refer forward than back. As a matter of fact, it does both. The comma between _in quest_ and _to have extreame_ has been moved forward to separate _have_ from _extreame_. The line originally stood for a number of interwoven meanings: 1. The taker of the bait, the man in pursuit and in possession of lust, is made mad, is made like this: he experiences both extremes at once. (What these extremes are the lines following show.) 2. The _Had, having, and in quest_, might have been written in parentheses if Shakespeare had used parentheses. They say, by way of interjection, that lust comprises all the stages of lust: the after-lust period (_Had_), the actual experience of lust (_having_), and the anticipation of lust (_in quest_); and that the extremes of lust are felt in all these stages (_to have extreame_, _i.e._ to have extremes, to have in extreme degrees). 3. Further, one stage in lust is like the others, as extreme as the others. All the distinctions made in the poem between _lust in action_ and lust _till action_, between lust _In pursut_ and lust _in possession_ are made to show that in the end there are no real distinctions. _Had, having and in quest_ is the summing up of this fact. 4. The _Had_, _having_, separately sum up _possession_: that is, the _action_ of lust includes the _expence of Spirit_, _the waste of shame_. The _in quest_, naturally refers to _In pursut_. 5. It must be kept in mind throughout that words qualifying the lust-business refer interchangeably to the taker (the man who lusts), the bait (the object of lust) and lust in the abstract. So: _Had_ may mean the swallowing of the bait by the taker, or the catching of the taker by the bait, or ‘lust had’, or ‘had by lust’; _having_ and _in quest_ are capable of similar interpretations.