"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bettesworth
Date
1720
Metaphor
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
Metaphor in Context
MISS MOLLY
As for my Part, I have but a few Days to be under her Tyranny--Nothing sure was so insipid as her Management of Children; Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds.
Love's Laws are known to all the Female Race.
And, tho' our Parents preach, will still take Place.
As for my Part, I have but a few Days to be under her Tyranny--Nothing sure was so insipid as her Management of Children; Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds.
Love's Laws are known to all the Female Race.
And, tho' our Parents preach, will still take Place.
Categories
Provenance
Searching HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Five New Plays: viz. I. The Hasty Wedding: Or, The Intriguing Squire. A Comedy. II. The Sham Prince: Or, News from Passau. A Comedy. III. Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught: Or, The Distress'd Princess. A Tragedy. IV. The Plotting Lovers: Or, The Dismal Squire. A Farce. V. Irish Hospitality; Or, Virtue Rewarded. A Comedy. As they are Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Dublin. Written by Mr. Charles Shadwell (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1720). <Link to ECCO>
Theme
Mind and Body
Date of Entry
04/25/2005
