"Whose soule by his selfe ignorance (not knowing what repast was most conuenient for his body) was pent vp and as it were fettred in these his corps as in her dungeon."
— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Imprinted by John Windet for Martin Clerke
Date
1607
Metaphor
"Whose soule by his selfe ignorance (not knowing what repast was most conuenient for his body) was pent vp and as it were fettred in these his corps as in her dungeon."
Metaphor in Context
[...] And what of others? who although they did not so speedilie by ignorance of their estate, curtaile their owne dayes by vntimely death, yet notwithstanding they haue liu'd as deade vnto the world, and their soules dead vnto them selues. Dyonisyus Heracleota that rauenous gourmandyzing Harpy, and insatiable draine of all pleasant liquors, was growne so pursie that his farnes would not suffer him to set his breath, beeing in continuall feare to bee stifeled, although others affirme that hee easily could with the strong blast of his breath haue turned about the sayles of a winde-mill: Whose soule by his selfe ignorance (not knowing what repast was most conuenient for his body) was pent vp and as it were fettred in these his corps as in her dungeon. So Alexander King of Aegypt was so grose and fat that hee was faine to be vpheld by two men: And a many moe by their [GREEK] and [GREEK] by excessiue eating & drinking, more vpon meere ignorance, then rebellion against nature, physicall diet, and discretion, did make their soules like the fatned sheepe whereof Iohannes Leo relates, which he see in Egypt some of whose tailes weighed 80. pound, and some 150 pound, by which waight their bodies were immoueable, vnlesse their tailes like traines were caried vp in wheel-barrowes: Or like the fatned hogs Scalliger mentions, that could not moue for fat, and were so senselesse that mise made nests in their buttocks, they not once feeling them.
(Chapter I)
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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
