untutored+youth


 * Untutored youth**

In this line of the poem, an "untutored youth" refers to a person who is young and inexperienced. To look at it literally, an "untutored" person would be someone who is has not learned much, portrays sometime of ignorance, or is inexperienced. The speaker wants his mistress to believe that he is a man in his youth. In this way, he lies to his lover the way she lies to him about being loyal.