"Fast! Then for a Window.-- / This shou'd be one. Down treacherous Bars, / Whose Iron frames scarce Match your Masters Soul / For hardness, since you yield to my weak Hands"
— Manning, Francis (c. 1673-1755)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed; and Sold by B. Bragg [etc.]
Date
1703
Metaphor
"Fast! Then for a Window.-- / This shou'd be one. Down treacherous Bars, / Whose Iron frames scarce Match your Masters Soul / For hardness, since you yield to my weak Hands"
Metaphor in Context
I'll rise, and try if I can find a Door
Or Window, for some light to view the Room,
That I may guess at this Barbarian.
[Gets up, and feeling about finds a Door.
Fast! Then for a Window.--
This shou'd be one. Down treacherous Bars,
Whose Iron frames scarce Match your Masters Soul
For hardness, since you yield to my weak Hands.
Wou'd he had been as Stupid.
[Seems to open the Shutters, and looks about her.
[In surprize.]
A very stately Chamber! every thing
In handsome Order; Noble, richly hung;
A Sumptuous Bed; Chair, Cabinets, and Pictures
Of costly Figure: This must be some Magnifico's.
What's this? The Story of the poor Lucretia?
[A Picture.
Alas! how wild she looks! how full of Horror!
Resisting what she can, but all too little.
See how the Ravisher improves his hold!
Impetuous Love flames forward through his Eyes,
And all the Satyr rushes on the Dame.
What near Alliance bear our Woes!--Off Eyes;
[In Rage.
No more of this Remembrance, lest my Hands,
Provok'd with Madness, tear you from your Seats.
[Walking about in a Rage, sees a Tablet upon a Cabinet.
Ha! this Tablet gives me a Thought.
It may be of use hereafter, I'll write in't.
Or Window, for some light to view the Room,
That I may guess at this Barbarian.
[Gets up, and feeling about finds a Door.
Fast! Then for a Window.--
This shou'd be one. Down treacherous Bars,
Whose Iron frames scarce Match your Masters Soul
For hardness, since you yield to my weak Hands.
Wou'd he had been as Stupid.
[Seems to open the Shutters, and looks about her.
[In surprize.]
A very stately Chamber! every thing
In handsome Order; Noble, richly hung;
A Sumptuous Bed; Chair, Cabinets, and Pictures
Of costly Figure: This must be some Magnifico's.
What's this? The Story of the poor Lucretia?
[A Picture.
Alas! how wild she looks! how full of Horror!
Resisting what she can, but all too little.
See how the Ravisher improves his hold!
Impetuous Love flames forward through his Eyes,
And all the Satyr rushes on the Dame.
What near Alliance bear our Woes!--Off Eyes;
[In Rage.
No more of this Remembrance, lest my Hands,
Provok'd with Madness, tear you from your Seats.
[Walking about in a Rage, sees a Tablet upon a Cabinet.
Ha! this Tablet gives me a Thought.
It may be of use hereafter, I'll write in't.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "iron" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
06/08/2005
