"So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage."
— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. Wood and T. Sharpe, for A. Bettesworth
Date
1717
Metaphor
"So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage."
Metaphor in Context
VULTURE.
Say you so?--But 'tis in your Power to make me merrier, you understand me--
[Patting her with his Cane.]
Mum! a word to the Wife is enough--ha! those Eyes! those Eyes! why, I am not so old as I look to be--I am not above Threescore; a good Age, a very good Age indeed-- I have liv'd temperately, not wasted my Health, nor my Strength upon the wanton Baggages of the Town, Hem! hem! There's Lungs! there's a Voice like a Game-Coc. --Hem! hem!
[falls a Coughing, Necessary strikes him on the Back.]
So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage.
[Coughs.]
Oh Phlegm, Phlegm!
(II.2)
Say you so?--But 'tis in your Power to make me merrier, you understand me--
[Patting her with his Cane.]
Mum! a word to the Wife is enough--ha! those Eyes! those Eyes! why, I am not so old as I look to be--I am not above Threescore; a good Age, a very good Age indeed-- I have liv'd temperately, not wasted my Health, nor my Strength upon the wanton Baggages of the Town, Hem! hem! There's Lungs! there's a Voice like a Game-Coc. --Hem! hem!
[falls a Coughing, Necessary strikes him on the Back.]
So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage.
[Coughs.]
Oh Phlegm, Phlegm!
(II.2)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "bird" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Eight entries in ESTC (1717, 1729, 1731, 1732, 1770, 1717, 1759, 1760).
See Christopher Bullock, Woman is a Riddle; a Comedy: as it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed by T. Wood and T. Sharpe, for A. Bettesworth, 1717). <Link to ECCO>
See also Woman is a Riddle: A Comedy, 2nd ed. (London: A. Bettesworth, 1729). <Link to Google Books>
See Christopher Bullock, Woman is a Riddle; a Comedy: as it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed by T. Wood and T. Sharpe, for A. Bettesworth, 1717). <Link to ECCO>
See also Woman is a Riddle: A Comedy, 2nd ed. (London: A. Bettesworth, 1729). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/29/2012
