"The passing Minds their former Load sustain, / Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again."
— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Watts; And Sold by W. Meres
Date
1714, 1723
Metaphor
"The passing Minds their former Load sustain, / Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again."
Metaphor in Context
O King supreme, and Father of the Night,
Monarch of Shades, and of resistless Might!
For whom our Looms are furnish'd, who dost give
All Things to perish, and again to live,
And, each distributing with awful Sway,
Dost Life with Death alternately repay:
For from the common Mass whate'er is bred
In Nature's Round, does from thy Gift proceed,
To thee returns; and when the measur'd Pause
Of rolling Years is run, by certain Laws,
The passing Minds their former Load sustain,
Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again;
Seek not to break th' establish'd Bands of Peace
Which we have fix'd, thy impious Arms release,
Nor sound the Signal for thy Troops to move,
With Civil Rage, against the Gods above.
Why dost thou bring the Titans to the Light?
Petition Jove, and he will do thee Right;
A charming Bride thy longing Arms shall bless,
And, with her Beauties, crown thy Happiness.
(Cf. p. 6 in 1714 ed.)
Monarch of Shades, and of resistless Might!
For whom our Looms are furnish'd, who dost give
All Things to perish, and again to live,
And, each distributing with awful Sway,
Dost Life with Death alternately repay:
For from the common Mass whate'er is bred
In Nature's Round, does from thy Gift proceed,
To thee returns; and when the measur'd Pause
Of rolling Years is run, by certain Laws,
The passing Minds their former Load sustain,
Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again;
Seek not to break th' establish'd Bands of Peace
Which we have fix'd, thy impious Arms release,
Nor sound the Signal for thy Troops to move,
With Civil Rage, against the Gods above.
Why dost thou bring the Titans to the Light?
Petition Jove, and he will do thee Right;
A charming Bride thy longing Arms shall bless,
And, with her Beauties, crown thy Happiness.
(Cf. p. 6 in 1714 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1716, 1723).
Text from The Rape of Proserpine, From Claudian. In Three Books. With the Episode of Sextus and Erichtho, From Lucan's Pharsalia, Book VI. Translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarg'd with Notes (London: Printed for J. Watts; And Sold by W. Meres, 1723).
See also The Rape of Proserpine, from Claudian. in Three Books. With the Story of Sextus and Erichtho, from Lucan's Pharsalia, Book 6. Translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes. (London: Printed by J. D. and sold by Ferd. Burleigh in Amen-Corner, 1714). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Rape of Proserpine, From Claudian. In Three Books. With the Episode of Sextus and Erichtho, From Lucan's Pharsalia, Book VI. Translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarg'd with Notes (London: Printed for J. Watts; And Sold by W. Meres, 1723).
See also The Rape of Proserpine, from Claudian. in Three Books. With the Story of Sextus and Erichtho, from Lucan's Pharsalia, Book 6. Translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes. (London: Printed by J. D. and sold by Ferd. Burleigh in Amen-Corner, 1714). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Mind and Body
Date of Entry
04/20/2005
