simple+truth+suppressed

="Simple truth suppressed" =

==== super The speaker knows that his lover is cheating on him but he does not acknowledge it or confront her about it. He ignores her disloyalty because he says that he lies too. Though he has passed his youthful days, he still likes for his mistress to think that he is young so he lies about his age. In the line when the speaker says that "simple truth is suppressed" by both him and his mistress, he means that they are both lying and hiding something simple from each other. This is interesting because he has put the act of cheating or infidelity and lying about age on the same moral level. In reality, the act of being disloyal to a lover is thought to be more morally wrong than lying about one's age. He seems to put them on the same level because that is how strongly he feels about hiding his age. Later in the poem he mentions that "Age in love loves not to have years told." This explains that as he grows into an aged lover, the less he likes to have his true age known. ====