"And mine / The truest Heart that e're obey'd the Dictates / Of Loves Imperial Power, from that hour / That first obtain'd my Eye the happy Object / Of your Perfections, my poor fetter'd Heart, / Proud of the Chains of such a Conquering Beauty, / Resolv'd to Grace the long wish'd Victory / With a perpetual Constancy."
— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Newcombe
Date
1677
Metaphor
"And mine / The truest Heart that e're obey'd the Dictates / Of Loves Imperial Power, from that hour / That first obtain'd my Eye the happy Object / Of your Perfections, my poor fetter'd Heart, / Proud of the Chains of such a Conquering Beauty, / Resolv'd to Grace the long wish'd Victory / With a perpetual Constancy."
Metaphor in Context
MANLEY
And mine The truest Heart that e're obey'd the Dictates Of Loves Imperial Power, from that hour That first obtain'd my Eye the happy Object Of your Perfections, my poor fetter'd Heart, Proud of the Chains of such a Conquering Beauty, Resolv'd to Grace the long wish'd Victory With a perpetual Constancy. (II.ii)
And mine The truest Heart that e're obey'd the Dictates Of Loves Imperial Power, from that hour That first obtain'd my Eye the happy Object Of your Perfections, my poor fetter'd Heart, Proud of the Chains of such a Conquering Beauty, Resolv'd to Grace the long wish'd Victory With a perpetual Constancy. (II.ii)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
3 entries in the ESTC (1677, 1682, 1691).
Madam Fickle: Or the Witty False One. A Comedy. As it is Acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre. (London: Printed by Thomas Newcombe, 1677). <Link to EEBO>
Madam Fickle: Or the Witty False One. A Comedy. As it is Acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre. (London: Printed by Thomas Newcombe, 1677). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
07/30/2011
