sentences:  The Speaker wishes to be seen as dutiful and devout by the Friend.To do so, the Third Quatrain employs language that evokes thoughts of a religious servant who makes sacrifice.According to Greene, "In this secularized sacrament, the dutiful poet freely makes an offering intended to manifest the inwardness and simplicity of his own devotion, knowing, or thinking that he knows, that his oblation will win him the unmediated, inner reciprocity which is his goal".