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