The New Historicism in "To His Coy Mistress"

Question for response

lines 13-16 - "An hundred years should go to praise/ Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;/ Two hundred to adore each breast,/ But thirty thousand to the rest"
In what way would these lines serve to undermine the "age" of the blazon (a detailed poetic description, usually of a woman) in a new -historical critique?



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