The former two poems are wooing a lady into sexual relations, while the latter is a bitter complaint that his lady's chastity has killed him- which acknowledges the characteristics of Petrarchan poetry by supposing that the rejected lover will die of unrequited love.

Conceit is used by the first two personas in aims to win their entreat. I.e. `The Flea' uses the insect as an argument that since their bloods are already `mingled bee' in the animal, they may as well have sex since this would amount to the same thing. It follows the renaissance intellectual belief that sex was...