Lines 11 - 14:
"My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze"
In these lines we begin to see the speakers love for his mistress. He claims he would wait till the end of time for her.. "everlasting love." He starts to describe his love for her by saying he will dedicate one hundred years to her eyes. But then you can see his attention shift towards sex rather than love when he says, "Two hundred to adore each breast.." (Line 15). He starts off being sweet and then nonchalantly sneaks in his real concern being sex. Not only are his intentions not what they initially seem to be, but in the next stanza you begin to see his patience running out as well. He attempts to be deceitful by misdirecting the readers opinion of him in the beginning.. hoping the reader wont notice his sexual remarks.. but do not be fooled!!
So you see this as a misdirection, but in the end a carnal intent.
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