"My Body a pick-pack on my Soul, / Rambles to view the spangl'd Pole, / Rambles a round to search my Dear, / Unwearied Walks from Sphere to Sphere, / Knocks at each door, and asks--Is Rachel here?"
— Dunton, John (1659-1732)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Newcome
Date
1691
Metaphor
"My Body a pick-pack on my Soul, / Rambles to view the spangl'd Pole, / Rambles a round to search my Dear, / Unwearied Walks from Sphere to Sphere, / Knocks at each door, and asks--Is Rachel here?"
Metaphor in Context
Tentoes farewel,--I'm chang'd into a Fowl
Some call a Goose, but most an Owl:
I feel, I rising feel from Rump to Crown
My harsh black Hair melt to soft snowy Down;
And I have Goose-Quils of my own.
[Then I rambled from Horace ]
My Body a pick-pack on my Soul,
Rambles to view the spangl'd Pole,
Rambles a round to search my Dear,
Unwearied Walks from Sphere to Sphere,
Knocks at each door, and asks--Is Rachel here?
With Legs for Oars th'ætherial Waves I plough,
My Wings spread wide, the Sails unfurl'd
Now, now,--just now--
I scamper away through the Fields of the Air to the
--End of the World.
(II, p. 91)
Some call a Goose, but most an Owl:
I feel, I rising feel from Rump to Crown
My harsh black Hair melt to soft snowy Down;
And I have Goose-Quils of my own.
My Body a pick-pack on my Soul,
Rambles to view the spangl'd Pole,
Rambles a round to search my Dear,
Unwearied Walks from Sphere to Sphere,
Knocks at each door, and asks--Is Rachel here?
With Legs for Oars th'ætherial Waves I plough,
My Wings spread wide, the Sails unfurl'd
Now, now,--just now--
I scamper away through the Fields of the Air to the
--End of the World.
(II, p. 91)
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
