"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."
— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Watts
Date
1728
Metaphor
"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."
Metaphor in Context
AIR XV.
Pray, Fair One, be kind---
MACHEATH.
My Heart was so free,
It rov'd like the Bee,
'Till Polly my Passion requited;
I sipt each Flower,
I chang'd ev'ry Hour,
But here ev'ry Flower is united.
(I.xiii)
Pray, Fair One, be kind---
MACHEATH.
My Heart was so free,
It rov'd like the Bee,
'Till Polly my Passion requited;
I sipt each Flower,
I chang'd ev'ry Hour,
But here ev'ry Flower is united.
(I.xiii)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay (London: Printed for John Watts, 1728). <Link to ECCO>
Extremely popular and often reprinted, with ninety some entries in the ESTC. Reading Penguin edition, edited by Bryan Loughrey and T.O. Treadwell, which is based on the third, quarto, edition of 1729.
Extremely popular and often reprinted, with ninety some entries in the ESTC. Reading Penguin edition, edited by Bryan Loughrey and T.O. Treadwell, which is based on the third, quarto, edition of 1729.
Date of Entry
06/28/2013
