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The parts of Sonnets 153 and 154 having to do with the creation of a hot bath by means of the quenching of Cupids torch are variations upon a theme treated in various earlier epigrams including one in fifth-century Greek by Marianus Scholasticus. These sonnets seem detached from the rest of the sequence, and their authenticity has been questioned. Reference: The Sonnets The Pelican Shakespeare Edited by Douglas Bush and Alfred Harbage 1989