A monarch may make "all her Subjects" "Friends to her Empire and "in their Hearts" lay "its deep Foundations"
— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill
Date
1705
Metaphor
A monarch may make "all her Subjects" "Friends to her Empire and "in their Hearts" lay "its deep Foundations"
Metaphor in Context
When other Potentates their Subjects scare,
With fain'd Invasions, and pretended War,
To make their Kingdoms bleed at every Vein;
And to enrich themselves, their Subjects drain:
Th'indulgent Queen, when Danger was sincere,
The Mother felt, and did her Britons spare.
When for their own Defence, she ask'd their Aid,
She with Reluctance easy Burdens laid.
She publick Wants and Pressures to supply,
Her State, and private Pleasures did deny.
From publick Thrift, to Sov'raign Pow'rs unknown,
She streighten'd for her Subjects Ease, the Crown;
Their Families to spare, almost distress'd her own.
She frugal of their Treasure and their Blood,
Still quitting private Ends for publick Good;
Friends to her Empire all her Subjects made,
And in their Hearts its deep Foundations laid.
With fain'd Invasions, and pretended War,
To make their Kingdoms bleed at every Vein;
And to enrich themselves, their Subjects drain:
Th'indulgent Queen, when Danger was sincere,
The Mother felt, and did her Britons spare.
When for their own Defence, she ask'd their Aid,
She with Reluctance easy Burdens laid.
She publick Wants and Pressures to supply,
Her State, and private Pleasures did deny.
From publick Thrift, to Sov'raign Pow'rs unknown,
She streighten'd for her Subjects Ease, the Crown;
Their Families to spare, almost distress'd her own.
She frugal of their Treasure and their Blood,
Still quitting private Ends for publick Good;
Friends to her Empire all her Subjects made,
And in their Hearts its deep Foundations laid.
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1705, 1721).
Eliza: an Epick Poem. In Ten Books. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M.D. and Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians in London. To Which Is Annex’d, an Index, Explaining Persons, Countries, Cities, Rivers, &c. (London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1705). <Link to ESTC>
Eliza: an Epick Poem. In Ten Books. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M.D. and Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians in London. To Which Is Annex’d, an Index, Explaining Persons, Countries, Cities, Rivers, &c. (London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1705). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/19/2004
