I think the sonnet is saying that the speaker is stating that the girl is too good for him and it's justifiable for her to leave him because he's supposedly not worthy. He has an extremely low self-esteem. The last line states "In sleep a king, but waking no such matter." This is symbolic that love gave the speaker a sense that he was in a dream, but when their love left them, they awoke from the dream to face reality. The speaker also questions how they ever deserved the love they thought they had. The person being written about is compared to riches, which is what the speaker sees them as. Because in reality the speaker isn't a king, he doesn't deserve the riches that were once his.
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