"The Peasant and the Crowned Head, / The same dark Path must tread, / And in the same cold Earth both undistinguisht lie; / (Whilest the sad Soul her Voyage takes / Through gloomy Fens, and Stygian Lakes, / Unable to procure a longer stay, / Into Eternal Exile sails away.)"
— Dunton, John (1659-1732)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Newcome
Date
1691
Metaphor
"The Peasant and the Crowned Head, / The same dark Path must tread, / And in the same cold Earth both undistinguisht lie; / (Whilest the sad Soul her Voyage takes / Through gloomy Fens, and Stygian Lakes, / Unable to procure a longer stay, / Into Eternal Exile sails away.)"
Metaphor in Context
Comes Death at last, and with a little Pin
Bores through his Castle Walls, and farewel King.
What though it does appear,
We came in with the Conqueror?
Impartial Death will no Excuses hear.
Valour and Wit, Magnificence and State,
Are sorry Pleas to unrelenting Fate.
Which quickly will this fatal truth evince,
How little less a Beggar's than a Prince.
One way or other all must die,
The Peasant and the Crowned Head,
The same dark Path must tread,
And in the same cold Earth both undistinguisht lie;
(Whilest the sad Soul her Voyage takes
Through gloomy Fens, and Stygian Lakes,
Unable to procure a longer stay,
Into Eternal Exile sails away.)
(III, p. 394)
Bores through his Castle Walls, and farewel King.
What though it does appear,
We came in with the Conqueror?
Impartial Death will no Excuses hear.
Valour and Wit, Magnificence and State,
Are sorry Pleas to unrelenting Fate.
Which quickly will this fatal truth evince,
How little less a Beggar's than a Prince.
One way or other all must die,
The Peasant and the Crowned Head,
The same dark Path must tread,
And in the same cold Earth both undistinguisht lie;
(Whilest the sad Soul her Voyage takes
Through gloomy Fens, and Stygian Lakes,
Unable to procure a longer stay,
Into Eternal Exile sails away.)
(III, p. 394)
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
06/19/2013
