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Read the lines from "To His Coy Mistress and answer the question

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime,
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day:
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find, 1 by the tide
of Humber would complain, I would
Love you ten years before the Flood...
Which Information, if included in a footnote or glossary, would most help to reveal the conflict between the speaker and
his "coy beloved?
A. The poet's allusion is to the flood os told in Genesis,
B. The Ganges is o river in India considered sacred by some people,
C. Rubies were valued in Asia os amulets thought to preserve virginity.
D. The Humber is o river that flows through the poet's hometown of Hull

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Answer:

But at my back I always hear

Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;

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Answer:

the answer is c thus said this because the believe that one's virginity should be as valued as the rubies

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