"You from your Breast must root Religion's Weed, / Not only sin, but disbelieve your Creed."
— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Wilkins for Jonas Browne ... and J. Walthoe [etc.]
Date
1718
Metaphor
"You from your Breast must root Religion's Weed, / Not only sin, but disbelieve your Creed."
Metaphor in Context
Should you reluctant Virtue's Cause decline,
Studious suppress your Sense of Truths Divine,
And bashful with their Ways in part comply,
You would in vain to win their Favour try.
You from your Breast must root Religion's Weed,
Not only sin, but disbelieve your Creed.
It must by daring Blasphemy be known,
By Principle you're Leud, and all their own.
Should you at length from Virtue's Camp desert,
To please your Patrons with Religion part,
Still a new Convert they'll suspect, and fear
You'r Change is feign'd, your Vices unsincere.
You by distinguish'd Crimes must Credit win,
Fam'd for strange Guilt, and new enormous Sin.
You Piety must Superstition name,
Exclaim that all Religions are the same;
The Prejudice of Education mourn,
And laugh your Parents pious Care to scorn.
Studious suppress your Sense of Truths Divine,
And bashful with their Ways in part comply,
You would in vain to win their Favour try.
You from your Breast must root Religion's Weed,
Not only sin, but disbelieve your Creed.
It must by daring Blasphemy be known,
By Principle you're Leud, and all their own.
Should you at length from Virtue's Camp desert,
To please your Patrons with Religion part,
Still a new Convert they'll suspect, and fear
You'r Change is feign'd, your Vices unsincere.
You by distinguish'd Crimes must Credit win,
Fam'd for strange Guilt, and new enormous Sin.
You Piety must Superstition name,
Exclaim that all Religions are the same;
The Prejudice of Education mourn,
And laugh your Parents pious Care to scorn.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC and ECCO (1718).
Richard Blackmore, A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). <Link to ECCO>
Richard Blackmore, A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
05/20/2010
