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Definition: Please see notes below.

In lines 5 and 6 the poet is speaking in general terms and so "like him" can mean any man. He desires to have one man's good looks and another man's good friends; to have one man's skill ("art") and another's freedom ("scope"). The poet is envious of all around him.

Note also that Shakespeare uses the rhetorical figure of speech anadiplosis in this line ("like him, like him").

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