"Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind."
— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for Samuel Chapman
Publisher
London
Date
1724
Metaphor
"Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind."
Metaphor in Context
NORTHAMPTON.
Wou'd not he wrong his King who wrongs his friend!
Come, come, my lord--you must be won to wisdom!
Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast,
Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind.
(III.i, p. 150)
Wou'd not he wrong his King who wrongs his friend!
Come, come, my lord--you must be won to wisdom!
Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast,
Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind.
(III.i, p. 150)
Categories
Provenance
LION
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1724, 1777, 1779).
See The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Searching The Works of Richard Savage(London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777), from which the text is drawn.
See The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Searching The Works of Richard Savage(London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777), from which the text is drawn.
Date of Entry
08/16/2013
