"Nay, yet more, / My Soul seems pleas'd to take acquaintance with thee, / As if ally'd to thine: Perhaps 'tis Sympathy / Of honest Minds; Like Strings wound up in Musick, / Where by one touch, both utter the same Harmony."
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Jacob Tonson
Date
1702
Metaphor
"Nay, yet more, / My Soul seems pleas'd to take acquaintance with thee, / As if ally'd to thine: Perhaps 'tis Sympathy / Of honest Minds; Like Strings wound up in Musick, / Where by one touch, both utter the same Harmony."
Metaphor in Context
TAMERLANE.
Thou speak'st him as a Soldier should a Soldier,
Just to the worth he finds. I would not war
[To Moneses.]
With ought that wears thy vertuous Stamp of Greatness:
Thy Habit speaks thee Christian--Nay, yet more,
My Soul seems pleas'd to take acquaintance with thee,
As if ally'd to thine: Perhaps 'tis Sympathy
Of honest Minds; Like Strings wound up in Musick,
Where by one touch, both utter the same Harmony:
Why art thou then a Friend to Bajazet?
And why my Enemy?
(I.i, p. 7)
Thou speak'st him as a Soldier should a Soldier,
Just to the worth he finds. I would not war
[To Moneses.]
With ought that wears thy vertuous Stamp of Greatness:
Thy Habit speaks thee Christian--Nay, yet more,
My Soul seems pleas'd to take acquaintance with thee,
As if ally'd to thine: Perhaps 'tis Sympathy
Of honest Minds; Like Strings wound up in Musick,
Where by one touch, both utter the same Harmony:
Why art thou then a Friend to Bajazet?
And why my Enemy?
(I.i, p. 7)
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Performed in December 1701. Over fifty entries in the ESTC (1702, 1703, 1714, 1717, 1719, 1720, 1722, 1723, 1725, 1726, 1728, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1744, 1750, 1755, 1757, 1758, 1764, 1766, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1778, 1784, 1790, 1792, 1795).
Text from Tamerlane. A Tragedy. As it is Acted At the New Theater in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By His Majesty's Servants. Written by N. Rowe (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1702). <Link to 2nd edition in Google Books>
Text from Tamerlane. A Tragedy. As it is Acted At the New Theater in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By His Majesty's Servants. Written by N. Rowe (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1702). <Link to 2nd edition in Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/17/2013
