"The Love I owe my Husband, is a seperate duty, and does not interfer with our Friendship: which like a chain firmly unites our hearts, whereon the least stroak given, is by both sensibly felt."
— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Abell Roper and Tho. Rainy
Date
1693
Metaphor
"The Love I owe my Husband, is a seperate duty, and does not interfer with our Friendship: which like a chain firmly unites our hearts, whereon the least stroak given, is by both sensibly felt."
Metaphor in Context
CLARINDA
My heart is now calm and even like a standing water, and I could wish it would so remain, without the Flux, and Reflux of a passionate tyde agitated and driven at the mercy of the winds; sometimes rising with the floods of Joy, above the banks of moderation: and afterwards discending into the Gulf of Sorrow and dispair. Fortune chains us Women like Prentices, to the will and humour of our Husbands, who must rise or fall by their care and Management; while the distracting cares of Families and Children devides our hearts, and spirits us away into remote and distant Countrys and by degrees Supplant that kindness which at present governs our hearts.
LADY WARY
The Love I owe my Husband, is a seperate duty, and does not interfer with our Friendship: which like a chain firmly unites our hearts, whereon the least stroak given, is by both sensibly felt: Then let us twine our weak defenceles Vines about the armes of two strong Neighbouring Oakes, who still shall joyn in Friendship to support our Interest, and honour: against the Canker of all envious Tongues, where they may flourish to our wishes and still preserve our Friendship.
(V.v)
My heart is now calm and even like a standing water, and I could wish it would so remain, without the Flux, and Reflux of a passionate tyde agitated and driven at the mercy of the winds; sometimes rising with the floods of Joy, above the banks of moderation: and afterwards discending into the Gulf of Sorrow and dispair. Fortune chains us Women like Prentices, to the will and humour of our Husbands, who must rise or fall by their care and Management; while the distracting cares of Families and Children devides our hearts, and spirits us away into remote and distant Countrys and by degrees Supplant that kindness which at present governs our hearts.
LADY WARY
The Love I owe my Husband, is a seperate duty, and does not interfer with our Friendship: which like a chain firmly unites our hearts, whereon the least stroak given, is by both sensibly felt: Then let us twine our weak defenceles Vines about the armes of two strong Neighbouring Oakes, who still shall joyn in Friendship to support our Interest, and honour: against the Canker of all envious Tongues, where they may flourish to our wishes and still preserve our Friendship.
(V.v)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1693).
The Wary Widdow: or, Sir Noisy Parrat, a Comedy· As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By Their Majesties Servants. Written by Henry Higden Esq. (London: Printed for Abell Roper, at the Mitre near Temple-Bar; and Tho. Rainy, bookseller in Doncaster, 1693). <Link to ESTC>
The Wary Widdow: or, Sir Noisy Parrat, a Comedy· As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By Their Majesties Servants. Written by Henry Higden Esq. (London: Printed for Abell Roper, at the Mitre near Temple-Bar; and Tho. Rainy, bookseller in Doncaster, 1693). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/30/2011
