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ow used she may be to killing the speaker (i.e., by refusing him) the flea now contains her life as well and she should refrain from suicide.

In the final stanza she has killed the innocent flea who could not be guilty "except in that drop which it suck'd from thee." Yet she behaves as if she has triumphed because, as they can both see, neither she nor the speaker is any weaker once the flea is dead and she has, therefore, disproved his nonsense. But

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