<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37432" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mark but this flea, and mark in this,<br>How little that which thou deniest me is;<br>It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,<br>And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.<br>Thou know'st that this cannot be said<br>A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead;<br> Yet this enjoys before it woo,<br> And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two;<br> And this, alas! is more than we would do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O stay, three lives in one flea spare,<br>Where we almost, yea, more than married are.<br>This flea is you and I, and this<br>Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.<br>Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,<br>And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.<br> Though use make you apt to kill me,<br> Let not to that self-murder added be,<br> And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cruel and sudden, hast thou since<br>Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?<br>Wherein could this flea guilty be,<br>Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?<br>Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou<br>Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.<br> 'Tis true; then learn how false fears be;<br> Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,<br> Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37432" data-title="The Flea de John Donne" data-description="Mark but this flea, and mark in this,/How little that which thou deniest me is;/It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,/And in this flea our two bloods mingled be./Thou know'st that this cannot be said/A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead;/ Ye..."></div> </div> </div>

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