Re: The Indifferent by John Donne Will no other vice content you?
Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers?
Or have you all old vices spent, and now would find out others?
"Vice" = constancy in love. O we are not, be not you so;We [men] are not constant in our affections, so you women should not be either. Let me—and do you—twenty know; Allow me freedom to love as many as twenty others, and you too can have this freedom. She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more. She had never heard this before and that in future she will not allow it to happen some two or three Poor heretics in love there be,
Which think to stablish dangerous constancy.
But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,
You shall be true to them who're false to you.’” There are some two or three poor [heretics in love] which hope to establish a dangerous constancy of love. But I {Venus} have told them that if they wish to be constant in love, they can be but they must not expect their lovers to be constant in return.
Last edited by Anglika; 17-Feb-2008 at 11:27.
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