"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."
— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for H. Curll
Date
1728
Metaphor
"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."
Metaphor in Context
But Crito tells me, full of Choler,
He'as drawn me in my proper Colour;
I thank him for his merry Whim,
And fain would do the same by him;
But hang it tho', 'tis cursed Cost,
To daub an Ass on every Post!
But all consider'd tho', I think
I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink:
On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black,
It seems the very thing I lack,
For I am apt to think his Soul
Is somewhat darker than a Coal.
He'as drawn me in my proper Colour;
I thank him for his merry Whim,
And fain would do the same by him;
But hang it tho', 'tis cursed Cost,
To daub an Ass on every Post!
But all consider'd tho', I think
I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink:
On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black,
It seems the very thing I lack,
For I am apt to think his Soul
Is somewhat darker than a Coal.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "ink" and "thought" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1727).
The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College Cambridge. (London: Printed in the year MDCCXXVIII [i.e. 1727] For H. Curll in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>
The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College Cambridge. (London: Printed in the year MDCCXXVIII [i.e. 1727] For H. Curll in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/27/2005
Date of Review
12/09/2010
