One may be galled "with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? "
— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Tonson
Date
1726
Metaphor
One may be galled "with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? "
Metaphor in Context
MOUR.
Is this the way to requite it? to leave you in my Room, my Benefactress behind me, expos'd, and insulted by a thousand Brutalities, that wou'd never attempt me? wou'd this be to repay you? wou'd this be to deliver me? to gall me with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? Wou'd this be to redeem me? to sink me into deeper Bondage, to send me into an unrepealable Captivity, where the Eye of Humanity wou'd abhor the Sight of me; a Monster of so vile an Ingratitude, that no Man was ever after to be believ'd or trusted, for my Baseness and Ingratitude, Unthankfulness to a Woman who has out-gone the gallant Examples of her Sex, in what she has suffered, and done, for her Constancy in Love: and is my deserting her to be my Return?
Is this the way to requite it? to leave you in my Room, my Benefactress behind me, expos'd, and insulted by a thousand Brutalities, that wou'd never attempt me? wou'd this be to repay you? wou'd this be to deliver me? to gall me with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? Wou'd this be to redeem me? to sink me into deeper Bondage, to send me into an unrepealable Captivity, where the Eye of Humanity wou'd abhor the Sight of me; a Monster of so vile an Ingratitude, that no Man was ever after to be believ'd or trusted, for my Baseness and Ingratitude, Unthankfulness to a Woman who has out-gone the gallant Examples of her Sex, in what she has suffered, and done, for her Constancy in Love: and is my deserting her to be my Return?
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1726).
Money the Mistress. A Play, As it was Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Thomas Southerne. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1726).
Money the Mistress. A Play, As it was Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Thomas Southerne. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1726).
Date of Entry
06/08/2005
