The Flea

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,  
______ little that which thou deniest me is;  
It ______ me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this ______ our two bloods mingled be;  
Thou know’st that ______ cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss ______ maidenhead,
   Yet this enjoys before it woo,
   ______ pampered swells with one blood made of two,
   ______ this, alas, is more than we would do.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, ______ more than married are.  
This flea is you ______ I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;  
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,  
______ cloistered in these living walls of jet.
   Though ______ make you apt to kill me,
   Let not ______ that, self-murder added be,
   And sacrilege, three sins ______ killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled ______ nail, in blood of innocence?  
Wherein could this ______ guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked ______ thee?  
Yet thou triumph’st, and say'st that thou  
Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
   ’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:
   ______ so much honor, when thou yield’st to me,
   ______ waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.