I wonder by my troth, what thou, and Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we i' the seaven sleepers den?

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and

Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till

then?

But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we i' the seaven sleepers den?

Ans. Ref.: These lines are from John Donne’s poem ‘The Good-Morrow’.

Context: ‘The Good-Morrow’, published in Donne’s 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, is written from the point of view of an awaking lover and describes the lover’s thoughts as he wakes next to his partner.

Comment: These are the opening lines of the poem. It has a reference to a Catholic legend. It also refers to the Seven Sleepers, the Catholic legend of seven Christian children, persecuted for their faith during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius, who fled to the shelter of a cave where they slept for more than 200 years. Donne, one of six or seven children and a baptised Catholic during a time of strong anti-Catholic sentiment from both the populace and the government, would certainly have been familiar with the story.

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