"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"
— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Samuel Tipper [etc.]
Date
1808
Metaphor
"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"
Metaphor in Context
And now our Prologue speaks--In former days
Prologues were abstracts of their several Plays;
But now, like guilty men, who dread their doom,
We talk of every thing but what's to come.
As for our Fable, little I'll unfold;
For out of little much cannot be told.
'Tis but one species in the wide extent
Of prejudice, at which our shaft is sent,
'Tis but this simple lesson of the heart--
Judge not the Man by his exterior part:
Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow,
Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow.
Prologues were abstracts of their several Plays;
But now, like guilty men, who dread their doom,
We talk of every thing but what's to come.
As for our Fable, little I'll unfold;
For out of little much cannot be told.
'Tis but one species in the wide extent
Of prejudice, at which our shaft is sent,
'Tis but this simple lesson of the heart--
Judge not the Man by his exterior part:
Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow,
Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow.
Categories
Provenance
Searching HDIS
Theme
Inner and Outer
Date of Entry
11/15/2004
