"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"
— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"
Metaphor in Context
Who has a breast so pure,
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,
With meditations lawful.
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,
With meditations lawful.
Categories
Provenance
Consulted Johnson's Dictionary after searching "law" in HDIS.
Citation
Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.
Date of Entry
05/03/2005
