Which of the following couplets from shakespeare's sonnet 138 employs double entendre to express the theme that physical love triumphs over all failures?

1. that she might think me some untutor'd youth / unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
2. therefore i lie with her and she with me / and in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
3. when my love swears that she is made of truth / i do believe her, though i know she lies.
4. o, love's best habit is in seeming trust / and age in love loves not to have years told.

4. O, love's best habit is in seeming trust / And age in love loves not to have years told.

Explanation:

The couplet from Shakespeare's Sonnet 138 that employs double entendre to express the theme that physical love triumphs over all failures Is:

2. Therefore I lie with her and she with me / And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.

Explanation:

This sonnet is very deep and it means that after all, they both were resting together and that knowing their faults and lies they were valued and appreciated by the other one. Because it was a form of saying that after all the personal failures each one had the other one loved them and found them acceptable because they both loved each other.

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