"Take, take me all: enquire into my heart, / (You know the way to every secret there) / My Heart, the sacred treasury of Love: / And if, in absence, I have mis-employ'd / A Mite from the rich store: if I have spent / A Wish, a Sigh, but what I sent to you: / May I be curst to wish, and sigh in vain, / And you not pity me."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Author

Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Work Title

Oroonoko: A Tragedy

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for H. Playford, B. Tooke, and S. Buckley
Date
1696
Metaphor
"Take, take me all: enquire into my heart, / (You know the way to every secret there) / My Heart, the sacred treasury of Love: / And if, in absence, I have mis-employ'd / A Mite from the rich store: if I have spent / A Wish, a Sigh, but what I sent to you: / May I be curst to wish, and sigh in vain, / And you not pity me."
Metaphor in Context
OROONOKO.
Take, take me all: enquire into my heart,
(You know the way to every secret there)
My Heart, the sacred treasury of Love:
And if, in absence, I have mis-employ'd
A Mite from the rich store: if I have spent
A Wish, a Sigh, but what I sent to you:
May I be curst to wish, and sigh in vain,
And you not pity me.
(p. 33)
Categories
Container::Treasury Container::Stores Money
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
46 entries in ESTC (1696, 1699, 1712, 1720, 1722, 1730, 1731, 1732, 1735, 1736, 1739, 1740, 1744, 1747, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1754, 1757, 1759, 1760, 1763, 1765, 1768, 1770, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1795).

See Oroonoko: A Tragedy As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal By His Majesty's Servants. Written by Tho. Southerne (London: Printed for H. Playford, B. Tooke, and S. Buckley, 1696). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/09/2013

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.