text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"RALPH
Oh! a plague of these women! They are just like--
[Air.--Ralph.]
A woman is like to--but stay,
What a woman is like, who can say?
There's no living with, or without one.
Love bites, like a fly,
Now an ear, now an eye,
Buz, buz, always buzzing about one.
When she's tender and kind,
She is like, to my mind,
(And Fanny was so, I remember.)
She is like to--O dear!
She's as good very near
As a ripe melting peach in September.
If she laugh, and she chat,
Play, joke, and all that,
And with smiles and good humour she meet me,
She is like a rich dish
Of ven'son or fish,
That cries from the table, ""Come eat me:""
But she'll plague you, and vex you,
Distract and perplex you;
False-hearted and ranging,
Unsettled and changing,--
What then do you think she is like?
Like a sand! Like a rock!
Like a wheel! Like a clock!
Aye, a clock that is always at strike.
Her head's like the island, folks tell on,
Which nothing but monkies can dwell on;
Her heart's like a lemon, so nice,
She carves for each lover a slice:
In truth, she's to me
Like the wind, like the sea,
Whose raging will hearken to no man.
Like a mill,
Like a pill,
Like a flail,
Like a whale,
Like an ass,
Like a glass,
Whose image is constant to no man:
Like a flower,
Like a shower,
Like a fly,
Like a pye,
Like a pea,
Like a flea,
Like a thief,
Like--in brief,
She's like nothing on earth--but a woman.",2012-06-29 17:47:54 UTC,"""Her head's like the island, folks tell on, / Which nothing but monkies can dwell on""",2006-11-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, Scene ii","",2012-06-29,"",•I've included twice: Island and Monkies,"Searching in HDIS (Drama): found again, ""head"" and ""monk""",15648,5891
"BLUM.
I was wrong then. The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise.",2009-09-14 19:44:40 UTC,"""The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise""",2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene x","",,Metal,"•I've included thrice: Steel, Armor, and Tortoise.",Searching in HDIS (Drama),15790,5932