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
"MARY.
Dear heart! I am so fine, I hardly know myself.
[Surveying herself all round.]
Do, mother, put your hand upon my heart, it springs like a bird in my breast with joy. Lud! lud! what a power of handsome men are here at court;--then they are all so well dressed, and grin so pretty to shew their white teeth, and smell so sweet!
(II.2)",2012-06-29 16:14:34 UTC,"""Do, mother, put your hand upon my heart, it springs like a bird in my breast with joy.""",2012-06-29 16:14:34 UTC,"Act II, Scene ii","",,Beasts,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""bird"" in HDIS (Drama)",19814,7269
"JACK.
Don't be frighten'd, Mrs. Phoebe! you have nothing to fear: I have seen my error, and thoroughly repent of it.
PHOEBE.
'Tis well you have, Sir.
JACK.
Very true, 'tis a happy reformation-- but who can command himself at all times, Mrs. Phoebe? Where's the man that can do it? I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread.
PHOEBE.
'Tis well you can, Sir.
(IV)",2012-07-05 16:58:36 UTC,"""I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread.""",2012-07-05 16:58:36 UTC,Act IV,"",,Beasts,"","Searching ""passion"" and ""horse"" in HDIS (Drama)",19872,5638