Edmund Waller’s poem “On a Girdle” invokes this thing in its final line after asking “Give me but what this ribbon bound.” A poem titled for this thing says “She’s all states, and all princes, (10[1])I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us; compared to this.” This physical thing is the focal object of the entire second stanza of “To (10[1])the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” (10[4])This thing is (10[1])asked to go (-5[1])chide “Late school boys (10[1])and (10[1])sour (-5[1])prentices” in a (10[1])John Donne (10[2])aubade (-5[1])titled for it. (10[1])The final lines of “To His Coy (10[1])Mistress” state that (10[1])though a pair (-5[1])cannot (10[1])make (-5[1])this thing (10[1]-5[1])“Stand still,” (-5[2])they can (10[1])make (10[1])it (-5[1])“run.” (10[2]-5[5])A sonnet (10[1]-5[1])whose first line (-5[1])ends with the word (-5[1])for (10[1])this thing (-5[1])later (10[1])states “If snow be white, (10[1])why then her breasts are dun.” For 10 points, Shakespeare’s Sonnet (10[1])130 (10[1])says (10[1])that a “mistress’ eyes are (10[1]-5[1])nothing like” (10[3])what (10[1])object? (10[3])■END■ (10[15]0[6])