Simply

**Simply **
====According to the Webster's Dictionary, the word "simply" means clearly, directly, plainly, really, etc. In this line of the poem, the speaker uses this word in 2 meanings. He uses it to mean that he directly or straight-forwardly accepts whatever his mistress says even though he knows that she is lying. He also means that as a simple and naive person, he accepts her "false-speaking tongue." By accepting his lover's lies naively, he believes that he can make her think that he is young. ====