"I Love this worthy Gentleman, so worthy, / That Hand and Heart that I have seal'd his for ever."

— Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Theobald, Lewis (1688-1744)

Author

Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Theobald, Lewis (1688-1744)

Work Title

The Lady's Triumph; A Comi-Dramatic Opera: As it is now Perform'd at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. With all the Entertainments of Musick, And the whole description of the scenes and Machinary, &c

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Browne ... and W. Harvey [etc.]
Date
1718
Metaphor
"I Love this worthy Gentleman, so worthy, / That Hand and Heart that I have seal'd his for ever."
Metaphor in Context
CHARL.
No, I am Principal in this Cause; and if
A Father's Justice, his Paternal Right
In the Disposal of an only Child
Shall weigh too Light, I have weightier of my own.
Think not thy slender Fortunes, only that
Poor worldly Thought is all the Bar between us.
No, I have a nobler Plea, not Interest, but Love:
I Love this worthy Gentleman, so worthy,
That Hand and Heart that I have seal'd his for ever.
Categories
Writing::Seal
Provenance
Searching "seal" and "heart" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
04/24/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.