"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"
— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Author
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed and sold by Allan Ramsay
Date
1733
Metaphor
"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"
Metaphor in Context
Some charm with their Descent and some with their face
Some inchant with a Manner & some with a Grace
Some only wish Riches to engage them for Life
while others value nothing but wit in a wife
But in my dear choice all excellencys shine
and point her out sprung from a source thats divine
Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert
which darted a conquest on my yielding heart
and now without Blushing I own you my choice
since a Brother consenting gives cause to rejoyce
and since my heart vanquished no longer is mine
accept on and cherisht as I will do thine.
Some inchant with a Manner & some with a Grace
Some only wish Riches to engage them for Life
while others value nothing but wit in a wife
But in my dear choice all excellencys shine
and point her out sprung from a source thats divine
Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert
which darted a conquest on my yielding heart
and now without Blushing I own you my choice
since a Brother consenting gives cause to rejoyce
and since my heart vanquished no longer is mine
accept on and cherisht as I will do thine.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
4 entries for The Devil of the Duke: or, Trapolin’s Vagaries in ESTC (1733). See also 1732 and 1741 printings.
Song appears in The Devil of a Duke: or, Trapolin’s Vagaries. A (Farcical Ballad) Opera. As Acted at the Theatres of London and Edinburgh. (Edinburgh: Printed and sold by Allan Ramsay, 1733). <Link to ESTC>
The play exists in multiple versions. First staged before 1660, but altered by Nahum Tate in 1685. The play was again altered by Robert Drury and produced at Drury Lane in 1732. Another altered version, in duodecimo, was published in Edinburgh in 1733 with some new songs substituted. These have been attributed to Ramsay: See J. Maidment and W.H. Logan, Dramatists of the Restoration: Cokain (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874), 117-118.
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Song appears in The Devil of a Duke: or, Trapolin’s Vagaries. A (Farcical Ballad) Opera. As Acted at the Theatres of London and Edinburgh. (Edinburgh: Printed and sold by Allan Ramsay, 1733). <Link to ESTC>
The play exists in multiple versions. First staged before 1660, but altered by Nahum Tate in 1685. The play was again altered by Robert Drury and produced at Drury Lane in 1732. Another altered version, in duodecimo, was published in Edinburgh in 1733 with some new songs substituted. These have been attributed to Ramsay: See J. Maidment and W.H. Logan, Dramatists of the Restoration: Cokain (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874), 117-118.
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Date of Entry
02/14/2005
