15. "It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, / And in this flea our two ____ mingled be." What is the missing word?
From Quiz The Flea
Answer:
bloods
When a flea bites each of them, their blood is sucked up and mingles together within the flea. If that mingling of their bodily fluids is innocent, the narrator reasons, why wouldn't their mingling through sex be equally innocent?
John Donne and Ann Moore had 12 children in their 16 years of marriage, two of which were still births. Ann died in 1617, five days after giving birth to their stillborn twelfth child. Donne expressed his mourning for his wife in the 17th of his "Holy Sonnets", writing:
"Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,
And her soul early into heaven ravishèd,
Wholly on heavenly things my mind is set."