"The Vices common to her Sex, can find / No room, e'en in the Suburbs of her Mind."
— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1702
Metaphor
"The Vices common to her Sex, can find / No room, e'en in the Suburbs of her Mind."
Metaphor in Context
The Vices common to her Sex, can find
No room, e'en in the Suburbs of her Mind.
Concluding wisely, she's in danger still,
From the meer Neighbourhood of industrious Ill;
Therefore at distance keep the subtil Foe,
Whose near approach would formidable grow.
While the unwary Virgin is undone,
And meets the Misery which she ought to shun.
(pp. 39-40, ll. 70-77; cf. pp. 54-5 in 1702 ed.)
No room, e'en in the Suburbs of her Mind.
Concluding wisely, she's in danger still,
From the meer Neighbourhood of industrious Ill;
Therefore at distance keep the subtil Foe,
Whose near approach would formidable grow.
While the unwary Virgin is undone,
And meets the Misery which she ought to shun.
(pp. 39-40, ll. 70-77; cf. pp. 54-5 in 1702 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 47 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1702, 1707, 1710, 1716, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1742, 1749, 1751, 1753, 1755, 1756, 1759, 1766, 1767, 1773, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797).
Text from Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. With some Account of his Life and Writings. To Which are Added, His Remains. (London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth, and E. Taylor, and J. Hooke, 1724).
First published as Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Place at Furnivals-Inn in Holborn, 1702). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO> -- 2nd edition in 1707; 3rd edition, 1710; 4th edition, 1716.
Found also in ECCO in Poetical Works (1779, 1797) and The Works of the English Poets (1790).
Text from Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. With some Account of his Life and Writings. To Which are Added, His Remains. (London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth, and E. Taylor, and J. Hooke, 1724).
First published as Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Place at Furnivals-Inn in Holborn, 1702). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO> -- 2nd edition in 1707; 3rd edition, 1710; 4th edition, 1716.
Found also in ECCO in Poetical Works (1779, 1797) and The Works of the English Poets (1790).
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
