Hilda Hulme disagrees with Andrew Gurr's take in 'Hathaway' in her essay Sonnet 145: 'I Hate, From Hathaway She Threw'. Hulme believes that Shakespeare is not in fact talking about his mistress or his wife, as Gurr believes with the pun taken on 'hate' and 'Hathaway', but that he is talking about an Old-English colloquial expression, "For those who know the imprecation 'May the devil take it', in the form Deil hae't 'Devil have it', the possibility of this 'hate' pun seems strikingly confirmed by Shakespeare's 'fiend' context" (427).