Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.
-“Sonnet 75,"
Edmund Spenser
Read the second quatrain of “Sonnet 75." Then,
answer the questions.
What is the best paraphrase of the first two lines of th
quatrain?
What is the central idea of the second quatrain?