"Nay, with every other person 'tis the same thing--If we are stuffed into a coach, with a little chattering pert Miss, "Oh dear, Mr. Anthony Euston, you must not ride backwards, here is room for you on this seat--and Mr. Euston, I know, will like one seat as well as another"--and then am I put with my back to the horses, though my head is whirling all the time like one of the coach wheels."
— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson
Date
1786
Metaphor
"Nay, with every other person 'tis the same thing--If we are stuffed into a coach, with a little chattering pert Miss, "Oh dear, Mr. Anthony Euston, you must not ride backwards, here is room for you on this seat--and Mr. Euston, I know, will like one seat as well as another"--and then am I put with my back to the horses, though my head is whirling all the time like one of the coach wheels."
Metaphor in Context
SIR GEORGE.
Dear Sir--
MR. EUSTON.
Nay, with every other person 'tis the same thing--If we are stuffed into a coach, with a little chattering pert Miss, "Oh dear, Mr. Anthony Euston, you must not ride backwards, here is room for you on this seat--and Mr. Euston, I know, will like one seat as well as another"--and then am I put with my back to the horses, though my head is whirling all the time like one of the coach wheels. Then if any thing be lost, or wanted, when no servant is by, "Mr. Anthony Euston must not stir for the world--but Mr. Euston, they know, will be so kind as to go for it."--And this is all because I am good natured. Egad! if this is my reward, no wonder there are so few in the world of my temper.
SIR GEORGE.
But, dear Sir, no jesting-- Does my Uncle intend to call on me or not?
Dear Sir--
MR. EUSTON.
Nay, with every other person 'tis the same thing--If we are stuffed into a coach, with a little chattering pert Miss, "Oh dear, Mr. Anthony Euston, you must not ride backwards, here is room for you on this seat--and Mr. Euston, I know, will like one seat as well as another"--and then am I put with my back to the horses, though my head is whirling all the time like one of the coach wheels. Then if any thing be lost, or wanted, when no servant is by, "Mr. Anthony Euston must not stir for the world--but Mr. Euston, they know, will be so kind as to go for it."--And this is all because I am good natured. Egad! if this is my reward, no wonder there are so few in the world of my temper.
SIR GEORGE.
But, dear Sir, no jesting-- Does my Uncle intend to call on me or not?
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
4 entries in the ESTC (1786, 1787).
Elizabeth Inchbald, I'll Tell You What. A Comedy, in Five Acts, As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. (London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786). <Link to ECCO>
Elizabeth Inchbald, I'll Tell You What. A Comedy, in Five Acts, As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. (London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/05/2012
