No, Thankyou, John - Twice

Question 1

“I never said

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I loved you, John” (NTJ)

Question 2

“will you haunt me

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with a face as wan” (NTJ)

Question 3

“Meg or Moll would take

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Pity upon you” (NTJ)

Question 4

That don’t give you what I have not got:

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Use your common sense (heart) (NTJ)

Question 5

“I’d rather answer “No” to fifty Johns

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Than answer “yes” to you.”

Question 6

“Let us strike hands as

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Hearty friends” (NTJ)

Question 7

Starts with “I never said I loved you, John”

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Ends with “No, Thankyou John”

Question 8

“Yet a woman’s words are weak;

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You should speak, not I” (T)

Question 9

“Broke

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,but I did not wince” (heart) (T)

Question 10

“I have not often smiled

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Since then, nor questioned since” (T)

Question 11

“I take my heart in my hand

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O my God” (Heart not broke) (T)

Question 12

“Yea, judge me now” vs

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“with a critical eye you scanned” (T)

Question 13

“Refine with fire it’s gold

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Purge thou it’s dross away” (T)

Question 14

“I take my heart in my hand

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I shall not die, but live” (T)

Question 15

Ends: “But shall not question

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Much” (T)

Question 16

Anthony Harrison (T): “The poem subverts the premises underlying

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(patriarchal) authority by appealing to a higher one”