Woman's Constancy
John Donne
1572 to 1631
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Dispute, and conquer, if I would,
For by tomorrow, I may thinke so too.
We are not just those persons, which we were?
Binde but till sleep, deaths image, them unloose?
Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day,
Wilt thou then Antedate some new made vow?
For having purpos'd change, and falsehood; you
Or, that oathes made in reverentiall feare
Can have no way but falsehood to be true?
Or, your owne end to Justifie,
Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?
Vaine lunatique, against these scapes I could
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forsweare?
Or, as true deaths, true maryages untie,
Or say that now
So lovers contracts, images of those,
Which I abstaine to doe,
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