- In which excerpt for John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" does the speaker tell his wife why she should keep his departure a secret?
A"...Thy firmness makes my circle just,/And makes me end where I begun."
B"...A breach, but an expansion,/Like gold to airy thinness beat."
C"...But trepidation of the spheres,/Though greater far, is innocent."
D"...'Twere profanation of our joys/To tell the laity our love."
A"...Thy firmness makes my circle just,/And makes me end where I begun."
B"...A breach, but an expansion,/Like gold to airy thinness beat."
C"...But trepidation of the spheres,/Though greater far, is innocent."
D"...'Twere profanation of our joys/To tell the laity our love."