Marvell then uses a biblical allusion that overstates his love for her in lines eight through ten, "loved you ten years before the Flood, and you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of the Jew." This hyperbole of his affection shows the time that he will love her, which it is a long time, more than realistically possible in a life span, from the great flood to the conversion of the Jews. The next lines state, "My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires, and more slow." His "vegetable love" is referring to his growing physical love for her and by using "vaster than empires- shows the extreme extend his love is for her yet it grows slowly. Also, Marvell, in lines 14 through 16, uses hyperbolic expanses of time: "an hundred years," "two hundred," "thirty thousand." The hundred years are for praising her because his love is so strong, the two hundred years to admire each of her breasts shows the stereotypical view of the male's sexual attraction, and the thirty thousand is just for all of the rest of her. The way the speaker goes from romantically praising her eyes to going to her body is an attempt to flatter her. In the last two lines of the poem the speaker says, "For, lady, you deserve this state, nor would I love at lower rate." The speaker is saying that she is getting a good deal that she deserves such a great man as himself and that he would not love any at a lower rate and also not give his love to her any less than he has said. In the first stanza the speaker is mocking the woman because he knows that she is not interested yet he persists making a strong offer to her. However, there is a shift in the second stanza, which can easily be detected by his use of syntax indenting the new thought, from mocking her to telling her that what will happen when they grow old. He begins by saying that he always hears "time's winged chariot hurrying near" showing that time is going to creep up behind very quickly like that of a winged chariot, which alludes to ancient times of the Greek and Roman civilizations.