"And that thou thinkst thee free / From all solicitation from me, / Then shall my ghost come to thy bed" (Lines 2-4)
Creeper alert. This guy is super weird, and he is way too attached to this woman he is threatening. I read this poem as a warning to his wife/girlfriend/woman he met once and is stalking (I can't decide which she is, so we'll call her Woman X from now on.) The speaker is about the die, and he is warning Woman X to never sleep with another man again. This guy has some serious attachment issues, and he just doesn't know when to stop being so clingy. My guess is that Woman X met him a few times, and now he is a bit of a stalker. The image of a ghost following her around during any relationship she will ever have reminds me of the movie Over Her Dead Body starring Eva Longoria, the fantastic Paul Rudd, and Lake Bell. Eva Longoria is crushed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day when she is supposed to marry Paul Rudd. Paul Rudd moves on to meet Lake Bell, but Eva Longoria does not want them to be together. Lake Bell can see Eva Longoria after she is dead for some reason, and that is very unfortunate for Lake Bell. Eventually, the story works itself out because it is a Hollywood product, but the poem doesn't seem to have such a lovely ending in store for the characters. Pity.
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