"'Tis to be believ'd that she who is always practising from her Birth her natural Property of applying her self to Evil, would be sure to take the worst of the two Urns that were plac'd by the Throne of Jove, and empty it all into her Bosom."
— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
The Post-boy rob'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet Broke Open
Date
1692
Metaphor
"'Tis to be believ'd that she who is always practising from her Birth her natural Property of applying her self to Evil, would be sure to take the worst of the two Urns that were plac'd by the Throne of Jove, and empty it all into her Bosom."
Metaphor in Context
And what is the reason that Lovers, in their actions, are necessitated to circumscribe their own Being within certain Limits which denote a Privation of the Understanding? Whence comes it to pass that they live without Law, because they are without reason: Deserving nevertheless, the more to be pardon'd their Miscarriages, as being mad and void of understanding. Certainly from no other cause, but for that they have the Hearts of their beloved Mistresses, by the force of an amorous Translation, fix'd in their own Breasts. And how indeed can it be, that having Hearts no way concern'd with intellectual Life, they should live performing acts of Reason? Miserable is that Man, who having a Woman to be his Soul, makes his own Substance obnoxious to the Qualities of Bestiality, and the Effects of Folly. 'Tis to be believ'd that she who is always practising from her Birth her natural Property of applying her self to Evil, would be sure to take the worst of the two Urns that were plac'd by the Throne of Jove, and empty it all into her Bosom. Whence coming to vary the Dependence of the Intellect and Will according to the many Changes of Obstinacy, while the Woman sway'd by her own disorderly Customs betakes her self to the worse, of necessity, the Man must approve that only which is contrary to reason.
(p. 303)
(p. 303)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Charles Gildon, The Post-boy rob'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Five Hundred Letters, to Persons of several Qualities and Conditions. With Observations Upon each Letter. Publish'd by a Gentleman concern'd in the Frolick. Licens'd and Entred, according to Order (London: Printed for John Dunton, 1692). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/30/2013
