"I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed, in her heart, to Mr. Myrtle--did I not bid you kiss me but once and be gone?"
— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Tonson
Date
1722
Metaphor
"I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed, in her heart, to Mr. Myrtle--did I not bid you kiss me but once and be gone?"
Metaphor in Context
TOM
Why their business is to be fooling and toying as soon as the parchments are ready.
PHILLIS
Well remembered--parchments. My lady, to my knowledge, is preparing writings between her coxcomb cousin Cimberton and my mistress though my master has an eye to the parchments already prepared between your master Mr. Bevil and my mistress; and I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed, in her heart, to Mr. Myrtle--did I not bid you kiss me but once and be gone? But I know you won't be satisfied.
(Act III, scene i, p. 248)
Why their business is to be fooling and toying as soon as the parchments are ready.
PHILLIS
Well remembered--parchments. My lady, to my knowledge, is preparing writings between her coxcomb cousin Cimberton and my mistress though my master has an eye to the parchments already prepared between your master Mr. Bevil and my mistress; and I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed, in her heart, to Mr. Myrtle--did I not bid you kiss me but once and be gone? But I know you won't be satisfied.
(Act III, scene i, p. 248)
Categories
Provenance
Found again searching "seal" and "heart" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
First performed November, 1722. At least 87 entries in ESTC (1722, 1723, 1724, 1725, 1729, 1730, 1732, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1741, 1743, 1744, 1746, 1747, 1751, 1755, 1757, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1782, 1785, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1794).
Text from The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Richard Steele (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1723).
Reading in Scott McMillin's Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Norton Critical Edition. (New York: Norton, 1973).
Text from The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Richard Steele (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1723).
Reading in Scott McMillin's Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Norton Critical Edition. (New York: Norton, 1973).
Date of Entry
07/22/2003
