e monogamous. We see this in the final two lines of the stanza, "Must I, who came to travail thorough you, / Grow your fixed subject, because you are true?" (ll. 17-18) This shows that the speaker is terrified of being with one woman only. He presents her with numerous questions to see just how serious she is about him being faithful.Another interesting aspect of his fear in becoming committed to one woman is in the second stanza. His use of the word "vice" shows just how disgusted he is with the idea of being faithful. He sees faithfulness as a "vice," something that will eventually hold him down and keep him from being the free spirited person he wants to be. In the final line of the stanza, we see his use of sarcasm in the way he asks the woman if he must be faithful to her just because she is faithful to him.In the third and final stanza, the speaker reflects back on the first two and refers to them as a "song" that he has been singing to the Roman Goddess of love, Venus, "Venus heard me sigh this song" (L. 19). This plea to a higher power shows his beliefs in love and the ultimate goal for the kind of love he desires. He gets easily bored with monogyny, therefore he desires variety: "And by love's sweetest part, variety, she swore" (L. 20). The desire to have a variety of lovers is more powerful than his desire to have companionship. This further shows his sexual desire because the variety he is looking for is not one of intellect, but rather of lust and his need to fulfill it.In the final two lines of the poem Venus speaks out and says just how disgusted she is with the idea of monogyny. She tells the woman whom the speaker has been addressing that since she is intent on being true, she will be true to everyone, even the people who are not true to her. She is saying that she knows no matter what he does, she will stay true to him. Venus is suggesting that she should be more like him, open and free loving. This Venus ...
