"For Brag [a card game] most wisely was design'd, / To shew each pimple of the mind, / The faithful mirror of the heart, / Each lurking foible to impart."
— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1766
Metaphor
"For Brag [a card game] most wisely was design'd, / To shew each pimple of the mind, / The faithful mirror of the heart, / Each lurking foible to impart."
Metaphor in Context
Now Brag the beaut'ous sex controuls,
And is the window to their souls;
No more let man complain he's fated
By subtle females to be cheated,
For Brag most wisely was design'd,
To shew each pimple of the mind,
The faithful mirror of the heart,
Each lurking foible to impart.
Upwards the ugly passion flies,
We read it in the fair one's eyes;
How bless'd a sight for once to see,
Women from all disguise set free!
And is the window to their souls;
No more let man complain he's fated
By subtle females to be cheated,
For Brag most wisely was design'd,
To shew each pimple of the mind,
The faithful mirror of the heart,
Each lurking foible to impart.
Upwards the ugly passion flies,
We read it in the fair one's eyes;
How bless'd a sight for once to see,
Women from all disguise set free!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "heart"
Date of Entry
06/28/2005
