"Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place."
— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by and for John Watts
Date
1739
Metaphor
"Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place."
Metaphor in Context
SGNAREL
Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place.
(I.ii)
Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place.
(I.ii)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1739, 1748, 1755).
Text from The Works of Moliere, French and English. In ten volumes, trans. Henry Baker and James Miller (London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Moliere, French and English. In ten volumes, trans. Henry Baker and James Miller (London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/28/2011
