Final answer:
The nymph in Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" views the pleasures of love and life as ephemeral and incapable of persuading her to commit to the shepherd's offer.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Raleigh's The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, the nymph believes that the "pretty pleasures" of the world and of love are fleeting and transient. Specifically, she asserts that if the world were always young and when honesty prevailed ("truth in every shepherd's tongue"), the shepherd's promises of enjoyment ("these delights my mind might move") could persuade her. However, she recognizes the realities of time and life's impermanence, understanding that pleasures quickly break, wither, and are forgotten ("soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten"). This skepticism suggests that commitments based on such ephemeral joys are not enough to convince her to commit to the idealized life the shepherd describes.