"Thy Chaps are fallen, and thy Frame dis-joyn'd: / Thy Body as dissolv'd as is thy Mind."
— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Jacob Tonson
Date
1693
Metaphor
"Thy Chaps are fallen, and thy Frame dis-joyn'd: / Thy Body as dissolv'd as is thy Mind."
Metaphor in Context
Thy Years are ripe, nor art thou yet to learn
What's Good or Ill, and both their Ends discern:
Thou, in the Stoick Porch, severely bred,
Hast heard the Dogma's of great Zeno read:
Where on the Walls, by Polignotus Hand,
The Conquer'd Medians in Trunk-Breeches stand.
Where the Shorn Youth, to Midnight-Lectures rise,
Rous'd from their Slumbers, to be early wise:
Where the coarse Cake, and homely Husks of Beans,
From pamp'ring Riot the young Stomach weans:
And, where the Samian Y, directs thy Steps to run,
To Virtue's Narrow Steep, and Broad-way Vice to shun.
And yet thou snor'st; thou draw'st thy Drunken Breath,
Sour with Debauch; and sleep'st the Sleep of Death.
Thy Chaps are fallen, and thy Frame dis-joyn'd:
Thy Body as dissolv'd as is thy Mind.
(pp. 36-7, ll. 99-115)
What's Good or Ill, and both their Ends discern:
Thou, in the Stoick Porch, severely bred,
Hast heard the Dogma's of great Zeno read:
Where on the Walls, by Polignotus Hand,
The Conquer'd Medians in Trunk-Breeches stand.
Where the Shorn Youth, to Midnight-Lectures rise,
Rous'd from their Slumbers, to be early wise:
Where the coarse Cake, and homely Husks of Beans,
From pamp'ring Riot the young Stomach weans:
And, where the Samian Y, directs thy Steps to run,
To Virtue's Narrow Steep, and Broad-way Vice to shun.
And yet thou snor'st; thou draw'st thy Drunken Breath,
Sour with Debauch; and sleep'st the Sleep of Death.
Thy Chaps are fallen, and thy Frame dis-joyn'd:
Thy Body as dissolv'd as is thy Mind.
(pp. 36-7, ll. 99-115)
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Provenance
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Citation
From The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English By Mr. Dryden. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1693). See The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse By Mr. Dryden and Several other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1693). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
07/11/2013
