London ladies are "All looking upwards, aiming with their Darts / To wound the Rich, and conquer wealthy Hearts"
— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1710
Metaphor
London ladies are "All looking upwards, aiming with their Darts / To wound the Rich, and conquer wealthy Hearts"
Metaphor in Context
These are the London Ladies, who display
Their Smiles, and dress so airy and so gay;
Some to enslave us to their awful Charms,
Others to tempt us to their sinful Arms;
All looking upwards, aiming with their Darts
To wound the Rich, and conquer wealthy Hearts;
For, gay Apparel and a beauteous Face
Gives Punk a Title to a Lord's Embrace,
Whilst Ale-wives Daughters, bred at Hackney-Schools,
Are Tap-lash Fortunes for the trading Fools;
For Money, not Desert, prefers the Maids;
From Chandler's Shop, to some rich Merchant's Bed,
Whilst Beauty wanting Bags, must range the Town,
And exercise her Charms for half a Crown:
Who then would marry, where the fairest Dames
Will quench, for such a Sum, our am'rous Flames?
Who need a Wife, that ev'ry Moment meets
Such Swarms of courteous Ladies in the Streets?
Their Smiles, and dress so airy and so gay;
Some to enslave us to their awful Charms,
Others to tempt us to their sinful Arms;
All looking upwards, aiming with their Darts
To wound the Rich, and conquer wealthy Hearts;
For, gay Apparel and a beauteous Face
Gives Punk a Title to a Lord's Embrace,
Whilst Ale-wives Daughters, bred at Hackney-Schools,
Are Tap-lash Fortunes for the trading Fools;
For Money, not Desert, prefers the Maids;
From Chandler's Shop, to some rich Merchant's Bed,
Whilst Beauty wanting Bags, must range the Town,
And exercise her Charms for half a Crown:
Who then would marry, where the fairest Dames
Will quench, for such a Sum, our am'rous Flames?
Who need a Wife, that ev'ry Moment meets
Such Swarms of courteous Ladies in the Streets?
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Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1710, 1723, 1737, 1759).
Text from Edward Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates: Or, An Useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage (London: Printed for T. Norris, A. Bettesworth, and F. Fayrham, 1723). <Link to ECCO>
See also Nuptial Dialogues and Debates: Or, an Useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage, 2 vols. (London: H. Meere, T. Norris, A Bettesworth, 1710). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Edward Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates: Or, An Useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage (London: Printed for T. Norris, A. Bettesworth, and F. Fayrham, 1723). <Link to ECCO>
See also Nuptial Dialogues and Debates: Or, an Useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage, 2 vols. (London: H. Meere, T. Norris, A Bettesworth, 1710). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/14/2005
