This poem was published first in the year 1633 and it exemplifies John’s irony as well as his wit. He addressed the poem from one friend to another. However, the poem focuses mainly on romantic love complexity. Love is presented as so all consuming as lovers are observed forgoing other pursuits so that they can spend time together. Love is asceticism in this sense and this is a major conceit in the poem. The title of the poem plays a dual role. The poem serves the role of a canonization of the lovers’ pair while the poet argues that his love will canonize him into a form of sainthood.