The printer's prejudice was one which Donne shared, but not, I think, to quite the same extent. Compared, for example, with the _Anniversaries_ (printed in Donne's lifetime) _1633_ shows a fondness for the semicolon,[45] not only within the sentence, but separating sentences, instead of a full stop, when these are closely related in thought to one another. In an argumentative and rhetorical poet like Donne the result is excellent, once one grows accustomed to it, as is the use of commas, where we should use semicolons, within the sentence, dividing co-ordinate clauses from one another. On the other hand this use of semicolons leads to occasional ambiguity when one which separates two sentences comes into close contact with another within the sentence. For example, in _Satyre III_, ll. 69-72, how should an editor, modernizing the punctuation, deal with the semicolons in ll. 70 and 71? Should he print thus?-- But unmoved thou Of force must one, and forc'd but one allow; And the right. Ask thy father which is shee; Let him ask his. With trifling differences that is how Chambers and the Grolier Club editor print them. But the lines might run, to my mind preferably-- But unmoved thou Of force must one, and forc'd but one allow. And the right; ask thy father which is shee, Let him ask his. 'And the right' being taken as equivalent to 'And as to the right'. One might even print-- And the right? Ask, &c. One of the semicolons is equivalent to a little more than a comma, the other to a little less than a full stop.