I have a Thought--but wherefore said I one, / I have a thousand Thoughts all up in Arms, / Like populous Towns disturb'd at dead of Night, / That mixt in Darkness bustle to and fro, / As if their Business were to make Confusion.
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1715
Metaphor
I have a Thought--but wherefore said I one, / I have a thousand Thoughts all up in Arms, / Like populous Towns disturb'd at dead of Night, / That mixt in Darkness bustle to and fro, / As if their Business were to make Confusion.
Metaphor in Context
LORD GUILFORD DUDLEY.
Oh! Pembroke, 'tis in vain to hide from thee;
For thou hast look'd into my artless Bosom,
And seen at once the Hurry of my Soul.
'Tis true thy coming strook me with Surprize.
I have a Thought--but wherefore said I one,
I have a thousand Thoughts all up in Arms,
Like populous Towns disturb'd at dead of Night,
That mixt in Darkness bustle to and fro,
As if their Business were to make Confusion.
(II.i, p. 19)
Oh! Pembroke, 'tis in vain to hide from thee;
For thou hast look'd into my artless Bosom,
And seen at once the Hurry of my Soul.
'Tis true thy coming strook me with Surprize.
I have a Thought--but wherefore said I one,
I have a thousand Thoughts all up in Arms,
Like populous Towns disturb'd at dead of Night,
That mixt in Darkness bustle to and fro,
As if their Business were to make Confusion.
(II.i, p. 19)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
First performed April 20, 1715. 33 entries in the ESTC (1715, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1727, 1730, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1744, 1748, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1761, 1764, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1782, 1791)
See The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715). <Link to ECCO>
See The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/21/2013
