Study Questions on "The Argument of His Book"

1. What is "cleanly wantoness"? Is "The Vine," p. 1758, an example of "cleanly wantoness"?
2. What could be the metaphorical meaning of lines 7-9? [I'm guessing that "piece by piece" means "one at a time."]
3. What could be the metaphorical meaning of "I write / How roses first came red and lilies white"? [Traditionally, the white of the lily and the red of the rose were used to describe the perfect beauty of a woman's face.]
4. What do the last two words of the poem, "after all," mean? I'm thinking that they mean "after the end of life," and something else, too.

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