"All this I think is in the power of Love, and yet it cannot work a change in me, my heart is link'd so firmly to your Virtues. Magick cannot break the chain."
— Lacy, John (c.1615-1681)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh
Date
June, 1684
Metaphor
"All this I think is in the power of Love, and yet it cannot work a change in me, my heart is link'd so firmly to your Virtues. Magick cannot break the chain."
Metaphor in Context
LORD ARMINGER
Had she all this Beauty, and the Worlds Treasure in her own Exchequer, she cou'd no more tempt me to love her, than she cou'd tempt the dead. A Marble Statue her Beauty may give life and motion to, force it to weep, and tell its amorous passion, make it die for love, and so turn Statue again. All this I think is in the power of Love, and yet it cannot work a change in me, my heart is link'd so firmly to your Virtues. Magick cannot break the chain.
(IV.iii)
Had she all this Beauty, and the Worlds Treasure in her own Exchequer, she cou'd no more tempt me to love her, than she cou'd tempt the dead. A Marble Statue her Beauty may give life and motion to, force it to weep, and tell its amorous passion, make it die for love, and so turn Statue again. All this I think is in the power of Love, and yet it cannot work a change in me, my heart is link'd so firmly to your Virtues. Magick cannot break the chain.
(IV.iii)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "chain" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Sr. Hercules Buffoon: Or The Poetical Squire. A comedy, as it was Acted at the Duke's Theatre (London: printed for Jo. Hindmarsh 1684).
Date of Entry
07/30/2011
