"Her breast is like a cabinet of goud, / Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd"
— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Author
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1753, 1766
Metaphor
"Her breast is like a cabinet of goud, / Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd"
Metaphor in Context
Her breast is like a cabinet of goud,
Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd;
Wit, virtue, prudence, constancy and love,
And a' good things we mortals can approve;
Humility, discretion, chastity,
And thousands mae that raise her dignity.
Her stature's comely: O! her charmtng voice
Wad gar a sullen dotard sot rejoice.
And you, O Willie, then how bless'd are ye,
When to a' these you can have access free?
In praising Babie ye my Muse prevented,
Or I had Annie's character augmented,
(p. 126; cf. pp. 109-110 in 1753 ed.)
Wherein the richest jewels are bestow'd;
Wit, virtue, prudence, constancy and love,
And a' good things we mortals can approve;
Humility, discretion, chastity,
And thousands mae that raise her dignity.
Her stature's comely: O! her charmtng voice
Wad gar a sullen dotard sot rejoice.
And you, O Willie, then how bless'd are ye,
When to a' these you can have access free?
In praising Babie ye my Muse prevented,
Or I had Annie's character augmented,
(p. 126; cf. pp. 109-110 in 1753 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "cabinet" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1753, 1766).
See The Rural Muse: or, a Collection of Miscellany Poems, Both Comical and Serious. By Alexander Nicol. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, 1753). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Subjects, Both Comical and Serious. In Two Parts. By Alexander Nicol, Schoolmaster. To Which Are Added, the Experienced Gentleman, and the She Anchoret; Written in Cromwell's Time, by the then Duchess of Newcastle. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and James Stark Bookseller in Dundee; and sold by him and the other Booksellers in town and country, 1766). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See The Rural Muse: or, a Collection of Miscellany Poems, Both Comical and Serious. By Alexander Nicol. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, 1753). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Subjects, Both Comical and Serious. In Two Parts. By Alexander Nicol, Schoolmaster. To Which Are Added, the Experienced Gentleman, and the She Anchoret; Written in Cromwell's Time, by the then Duchess of Newcastle. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and James Stark Bookseller in Dundee; and sold by him and the other Booksellers in town and country, 1766). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
09/07/2005
