So a tete a tete is a private conversation between two people. In this case between me and you. Me the writer and you the reader. Not unlike Shakespeare’s Sonnet 117; Shakespeare is the writer and Henry 3rd Earl of Southampton is the reader. Or Henry is the guy Shakespeare is talking to when he writes Sonnet 117. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 117 offers a tete a tete a private conversation betwen the Bard from Stratford upon the Avon River and Henry Wriothesley patron to both Shakespeare and Marlowe both his poets in the sense that both laboured with inventions devised to strike the mind’s eye what with images of the youthful countenance of Henry painted upon their art’s borrowed faces: