Donne vs. Bard

 'He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.' said Donne, but Bill said 'love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.' 

 Could you have an affair with a clear conscience? An if so, how and with what boundries? Donne makes the point that you cannot devote yourself to two lovers, and live a full life, as nither one will receive your all... where as Shakespeare disagrees saying that to love two at a time is possible, but warns us that any any love that destroys another love is not 'real' love, and that is the test of 'truth'

 In contrast, common day morality focuses on the contract made between two people and the consequence of breaking that as what is 'wrong' (if we have lived experienced adult lives, we all know how it feels to be cheated on by one that you 'feel' you love!) The difference is that one is 'wrong' as its a lie to another (todays morality), but to the poets it is a lie to ourselves i.e. our conscience.