"Whilst his dull Body's for New-England bound, / His Soul (in Dreams) trots all the World around."
— Dunton, John (1659-1732)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Newcome
Date
1691
Metaphor
"Whilst his dull Body's for New-England bound, / His Soul (in Dreams) trots all the World around."
Metaphor in Context
Ca'ndish and Drake, rub off! avaunt! be gone!
A greater Traveller now's approaching on:
You for one way at once did well 'tis true,
But his Inventions far more strange and new,
At once he forward goes and backwards too!
Whilst his dull Body's for New-England bound,
His Soul (in Dreams) trots all the World around;
But Cunning Men and Conjurers use this Trade,
Who still as Stocks have Sea and Land survey'd;
Nor think he writes more than he saw, thô he
Use Authors to refresh his Memorie;
And Trav'llers have you know Authoritie.
If Fame and thee as who dares doubt, speak true,
No mortal Wight cou'd ever him outdo;
No wandring Christian; No, nor wandring Jew,
Vesputius, Madoc, Cortes, Captain Smith,
Lithgow, or whom Achates travel'd with,
Whoever round the Earths vast Circle ran,
Coryat or Cabot, Hanno or Magellan;
By Horse or Foot, or Ship, how e're they've gone,
Whether Dutch Vander, or Castilian Don,
None sure, none over-went thee yet, Friend John!
And see how on the Black'nd shore attends
Thy looseing Bark a shole of weeping Friends:
Weeping, or what's far worse, the sad surprize,
And Grief for thy Departure froze their Eyes.
He that can cry or roar finds some relief,
But nothing kills like the dry silent grief.
A greater Traveller now's approaching on:
You for one way at once did well 'tis true,
But his Inventions far more strange and new,
At once he forward goes and backwards too!
Whilst his dull Body's for New-England bound,
His Soul (in Dreams) trots all the World around;
But Cunning Men and Conjurers use this Trade,
Who still as Stocks have Sea and Land survey'd;
Nor think he writes more than he saw, thô he
Use Authors to refresh his Memorie;
And Trav'llers have you know Authoritie.
If Fame and thee as who dares doubt, speak true,
No mortal Wight cou'd ever him outdo;
No wandring Christian; No, nor wandring Jew,
Vesputius, Madoc, Cortes, Captain Smith,
Lithgow, or whom Achates travel'd with,
Whoever round the Earths vast Circle ran,
Coryat or Cabot, Hanno or Magellan;
By Horse or Foot, or Ship, how e're they've gone,
Whether Dutch Vander, or Castilian Don,
None sure, none over-went thee yet, Friend John!
And see how on the Black'nd shore attends
Thy looseing Bark a shole of weeping Friends:
Weeping, or what's far worse, the sad surprize,
And Grief for thy Departure froze their Eyes.
He that can cry or roar finds some relief,
But nothing kills like the dry silent grief.
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
John Dunton, A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes. The First of which contains the Rare Adventures of Don Kainophilus, From his Cradle to his 15th. Year. The like Discoveries in such a Method never made by any Rambler before. The whole Work intermixt with Essays, Historical, Moral and Divine; and all other kinds of Learning. Done into English by a Lover of Travels. Recommended by the Wits of both Universities. 3 vols. (London: Printed for Richard Newcome, 1691). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/18/2013
