Choose a significant short passage from "To His Coy Mistress" that captures the essence or theme of this work. You may choose dialogue, a descriptive passage, or a narrative excerpt. First, cite the quote, and then briefly (in one sentence) explain its relevance to the meaning of the work.

In "To His Coy Mistress," Andrew Marvell sets out to convince his beloved that they should begin immediately to consummate their love because life is short.
He begins by saying that things would be different if they had more time and could travel the world. To show that he is sincere about the idea of taking all the time in the world for their love to grow (including him singing her praises), he mentions specific features of hers and the amount of time that his wooing would correspond for each one. He begins with them walking together and passing just one day, and then adds amounts of time from ten years to thirty thousand years. By this humorous exaggeration, he aims to show not only his devotion to her but to entertain her with his wit:

We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love’s day.
. . . I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
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;
Two hundred to adore each breast;
But thirty thousand to the rest.