"There is no other dealing with you but violence, you use my heart worse than a Pirate would an utter Enemy, and put more chains than a Christian Slave has in the Turkish Bilboes--what did you mean by this Letter? why d'ye use me thus barbarously?"
— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Bentley
Date
1692
Metaphor
"There is no other dealing with you but violence, you use my heart worse than a Pirate would an utter Enemy, and put more chains than a Christian Slave has in the Turkish Bilboes--what did you mean by this Letter? why d'ye use me thus barbarously?"
Metaphor in Context
DAREWELL
There is no other dealing with you but violence, you use my heart worse than a Pirate would an utter Enemy, and put more chains than a Christian Slave has in the Turkish Bilboes--what did you mean by this Letter? why d'ye use me thus barbarously?
(II.i)
There is no other dealing with you but violence, you use my heart worse than a Pirate would an utter Enemy, and put more chains than a Christian Slave has in the Turkish Bilboes--what did you mean by this Letter? why d'ye use me thus barbarously?
(II.i)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Thomas D'Urfey, The Marriage-Hater Match'd: a Comedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesties Servants (London: Printed for Richard Bentley, 1692).
Date of Entry
07/30/2011
