"For when the Blood shall with a sudden Start, / Run to the Caverns of the Womb and Heart, / A chilling Fear will all your Hopes defeat, / Whose Icy Flood destroys the forming Heat" and result in "an Abortive Birth."
— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for E. Sanger and E. Curll
Date
1712
Metaphor
"For when the Blood shall with a sudden Start, / Run to the Caverns of the Womb and Heart, / A chilling Fear will all your Hopes defeat, / Whose Icy Flood destroys the forming Heat" and result in "an Abortive Birth."
Metaphor in Context
For grant, your Coach unhurt, your Self secure,
Yet where's the Harm in being slow and sure?
Perhaps the Fear of falling will bring forth
A worse Misfortune, an Abortive Birth.
For when the Blood shall with a sudden Start,
Run to the Caverns of the Womb and Heart,
A chilling Fear will all your Hopes defeat,
Whose Icy Flood destroys the forming Heat.
Yet where's the Harm in being slow and sure?
Perhaps the Fear of falling will bring forth
A worse Misfortune, an Abortive Birth.
For when the Blood shall with a sudden Start,
Run to the Caverns of the Womb and Heart,
A chilling Fear will all your Hopes defeat,
Whose Icy Flood destroys the forming Heat.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "cave" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 18 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1712, 1715, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1728, 1729, 1733, 1750, 1760, 1761, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1776). Translated from the French of Claude Quillet. First published in Leiden in 1655, followed by Latin version (London, 1708).
Callipædia. A Poem. In Four Books. With Some Other Pieces. Written in Latin by Claudius Quillet, Made English by N. Rowe, Esq; to Which Is Prefix’d, Mr. Bayle’s Account of His Life. (London: Printed for E. Sanger, and E. Curll, 1712). <Link to ESTC>
See also Cl. Quilleti Callipædia, &c. Et Scævolæ Sammarthani Pædotrophia. (Londini: impensis J. Bowyer, 1709). <Link to ESTC>
Callipædia. A Poem. In Four Books. With Some Other Pieces. Written in Latin by Claudius Quillet, Made English by N. Rowe, Esq; to Which Is Prefix’d, Mr. Bayle’s Account of His Life. (London: Printed for E. Sanger, and E. Curll, 1712). <Link to ESTC>
See also Cl. Quilleti Callipædia, &c. Et Scævolæ Sammarthani Pædotrophia. (Londini: impensis J. Bowyer, 1709). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
01/18/2006
