"During this Time, the Prince, who had order'd the Guard to halt, and whom the Story of Duke Bellfond's Page had made attentive, strictly view'd Amanda, and fancy'd he could in that Lady trace all Florio's Features, whilst the distress'd Fair One, who imagin'd she was the Subject of Amelia's Discourse, observ'd the Prince with visible Disorder, when the Royal Youth revolving in his Mind the Duke's Confusion, when he named this Florio, Sylvander's Letter who fear'd his Discovery, nay the very Peasant's Description of the Stripling's Behavior, prov'd his Accusation false, and that this secret Amour of the Duke's was undoubtedly the suppos'd Plot, notwithstanding which, to be satisfied if what he surmised was Truth, he desir'd of Amelia, that he might see the suppos'd Florio in her Page's Cloaths, and if that Lady was the same Person that he had seen with Duke Bellfond, he should be convinc'd that the Duke and Beauville were innocent, and the Peasants Accusation an impudent Falshood, for which he should suffer the Punishment their Laws inflicted on such bold Offenders, viz. to be made a Galley Slave, during the Remainder of his Life."
— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)
Metaphor
"During this Time, the Prince, who had order'd the Guard to halt, and whom the Story of Duke Bellfond's Page had made attentive, strictly view'd Amanda, and fancy'd he could in that Lady trace all Florio's Features, whilst the distress'd Fair One, who imagin'd she was the Subject of Amelia's Discourse, observ'd the Prince with visible Disorder, when the Royal Youth revolving in his Mind the Duke's Confusion, when he named this Florio, Sylvander's Letter who fear'd his Discovery, nay the very Peasant's Description of the Stripling's Behavior, prov'd his Accusation false, and that this secret Amour of the Duke's was undoubtedly the suppos'd Plot, notwithstanding which, to be satisfied if what he surmised was Truth, he desir'd of Amelia, that he might see the suppos'd Florio in her Page's Cloaths, and if that Lady was the same Person that he had seen with Duke Bellfond, he should be convinc'd that the Duke and Beauville were innocent, and the Peasants Accusation an impudent Falshood, for which he should suffer the Punishment their Laws inflicted on such bold Offenders, viz. to be made a Galley Slave, during the Remainder of his Life."
Metaphor in Context
During this Time, the Prince, who had order'd the Guard to halt, and whom the Story of Duke Bellfond's Page had made attentive, strictly view'd Amanda, and fancy'd he could in that Lady trace all Florio's Features, whilst the distress'd Fair One, who imagin'd she was the Subject of Amelia's Discourse, observ'd the Prince with visible Disorder, when the Royal Youth revolving in his Mind the Duke's Confusion, when he named this Florio, Sylvander's Letter who fear'd his Discovery, nay the very Peasant's Description of the Stripling's Behavior, prov'd his Accusation false, and that this secret Amour of the Duke's was undoubtedly the suppos'd Plot, notwithstanding which, to be satisfied if what he surmised was Truth, he desir'd of Amelia, that he might see the suppos'd Florio in her Page's Cloaths, and if that Lady was the same Person that he had seen with Duke Bellfond, he should be convinc'd that the Duke and Beauville were innocent, and the Peasants Accusation an impudent Falshood, for which he should suffer the Punishment their Laws inflicted on such bold Offenders, viz. to be made a Galley Slave, during the Remainder of his Life.
(P. 280)
