"If the happie Daemon of Vlisses direct not the wandering planet of my witte within the decent orbe of wisedome, my stammering pen seeming far ouergon with superfluitie of phrase, yet wanting matter I answer with the poet one only word inuerted."
— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Imprinted by John Windet for Martin Clerke
Date
1607
Metaphor
"If the happie Daemon of Vlisses direct not the wandering planet of my witte within the decent orbe of wisedome, my stammering pen seeming far ouergon with superfluitie of phrase, yet wanting matter I answer with the poet one only word inuerted."
Metaphor in Context
Take this my endeauour I pray you in worth, cheerish and foster this deformed brood of my braine, in the lap (if I may so tearme it) of your good liking, and in loue esteeme it faire thogh badly penzeld ouer, to wish as Daphnis said to Dam
[GREEK]
Qui minime sunt pulchra, en pulchra videntur amāt
If the happie Daemon of Vlisses direct not the wandering planet of my witte within the decent orbe of wisedome, my stammering pen seeming far ouergon with superfluitie of phrase, yet wanting matter I answer with the poet one only word inuerted [...]
(Epistle Dedicatory)
[GREEK]
Qui minime sunt pulchra, en pulchra videntur amāt
If the happie Daemon of Vlisses direct not the wandering planet of my witte within the decent orbe of wisedome, my stammering pen seeming far ouergon with superfluitie of phrase, yet wanting matter I answer with the poet one only word inuerted [...]
(Epistle Dedicatory)
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Citation
Reading 1664 edition at the Folger, text from EEBO-TCP <Link>
Walkington, Thomas, The Optick Glasse of Humors. Or The Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to Make a Golden Temper Wherein the Foure Complections Sanguine, Cholericke, Phlegmaticke, Melancholicke are Succinctly Painted Forth, and their Axternall Intimates Laide Open to the Purblind Eye of Ignorance It Selfe, by which Euery One May Iudge of What Complection he is, and Answerably Learne What is Most Sutable to his Nature. Lately Pend by T.W. Master of Artes. (London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate, 1607)
Walkington, Thomas, The Optick Glasse of Humors. Or The Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to Make a Golden Temper Wherein the Foure Complections Sanguine, Cholericke, Phlegmaticke, Melancholicke are Succinctly Painted Forth, and their Axternall Intimates Laide Open to the Purblind Eye of Ignorance It Selfe, by which Euery One May Iudge of What Complection he is, and Answerably Learne What is Most Sutable to his Nature. Lately Pend by T.W. Master of Artes. (London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate, 1607)
Date of Entry
05/16/2013
