"Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more) / The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom, / (The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity) / By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression, / So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse, / Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose / In this one Thought, that if the Powers have doom'd me / To the vile Death of Violence and Shame, / 'Tis for the Wrong I offer'd Adeliza."
— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood
Date
1724
Metaphor
"Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more) / The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom, / (The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity) / By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression, / So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse, / Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose / In this one Thought, that if the Powers have doom'd me / To the vile Death of Violence and Shame, / 'Tis for the Wrong I offer'd Adeliza."
Metaphor in Context
LEOLIN.
Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more)
The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom,
(The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity)
By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression,
So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse,
Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose
In this one Thought, that if the Powers have doom'd me
To the vile Death of Violence and Shame,
'Tis for the Wrong I offer'd Adeliza.
For then--
(IV.i, p. 53)
Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more)
The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom,
(The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity)
By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression,
So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse,
Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose
In this one Thought, that if the Powers have doom'd me
To the vile Death of Violence and Shame,
'Tis for the Wrong I offer'd Adeliza.
For then--
(IV.i, p. 53)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1724).
Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys. (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys. (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/29/2013
