I seemed to be able to connect to the narrator on a personal level in a way that let me know exactly what he was feeling and why the The emotions he feels exist. Being one of the most important poets of the early Elizabethan era, George Gascoigne began writing plays, literary criticism, prose fiction, poems, etc., after failing as a lawyer and soldier. In this particular poem, a speaker begins in the middle of a conversation, and at first it is difficult to tell whether the speaker is male or female. The opening of this poem also seems to come in the form of an argument or disagreement, creating a mysterious background for the reader from the beginning of the poem. It is then obvious that the opening stanza is a woman talking about being accused of infidelity. She doesn't seem to care what she does because there are plenty of women for every man and she doesn't want people to try to monopolize her sexuality: "'What if I did, so what?' / The sea has fish for every man” (Gascoigne 1007). Gascoigne uses idiomatic expressions