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Old 17-Feb-2008, 20:23
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Default Re: The Indifferent by John Donne

Donne is not easy at the best of times!

The first of these lines has a sort of implication that the mothers of the women being addressed by the poet were themselves not constant in love.

The second line is saying "perhaps you have worked through and used up all the various ways of being constant/faithful, and so now you are seeking some new or alternative ways".
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