"What's this I feel thus rising in my Breast? Have I room there for any thing but Love? From whence then this new Guest? Is't Jealousie? "
— Scott, Thomas (fl. 1696-1697)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for H. Rhodes ... J. Harris ... and S. Briscoe [etc.]
Date
1696
Metaphor
"What's this I feel thus rising in my Breast? Have I room there for any thing but Love? From whence then this new Guest? Is't Jealousie? "
Metaphor in Context
MAR.
What's this I feel thus rising in my Breast? Have I room there for any thing but Love? From whence then this new Guest? Is't Jealousie? jealous of whom? And why must I repine at his just Praises of anothers Beauty, since 'tis a Debt that's due to her deservings? But then he loves her, and is again belov'd; and all my Virgin-hopes must lye forever bury'd in despair.
Enter Fairly.
But see he's return'd; does then his Love, like mine, drive him to Solitudes? O tho' I esteem his presence dearer than these two Eyes with which I view him, yet I'll withdraw and hide my shame; for surely let me do what I can, my Tongue will prove a Traitor.
What's this I feel thus rising in my Breast? Have I room there for any thing but Love? From whence then this new Guest? Is't Jealousie? jealous of whom? And why must I repine at his just Praises of anothers Beauty, since 'tis a Debt that's due to her deservings? But then he loves her, and is again belov'd; and all my Virgin-hopes must lye forever bury'd in despair.
Enter Fairly.
But see he's return'd; does then his Love, like mine, drive him to Solitudes? O tho' I esteem his presence dearer than these two Eyes with which I view him, yet I'll withdraw and hide my shame; for surely let me do what I can, my Tongue will prove a Traitor.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Theme
Soliloquy
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
Date of Review
03/23/2009
