"I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object."
— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Watts
Date
1728
Metaphor
"I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object."
Metaphor in Context
Verm.
O what a Profusion was there of Sighs, Vows, Prayers, Oaths, Tears and Curses!---And so you are fled to London as a Place of Security against Love-Debts? I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object. Whereas in the Country, our Ideas are more fixed and more Romantick. Courts and Cities have few Heroes or Heroines in Love.
(II.i, p. 19)
O what a Profusion was there of Sighs, Vows, Prayers, Oaths, Tears and Curses!---And so you are fled to London as a Place of Security against Love-Debts? I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object. Whereas in the Country, our Ideas are more fixed and more Romantick. Courts and Cities have few Heroes or Heroines in Love.
(II.i, p. 19)
Categories
Provenance
LION
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1728, 1755).
See Love In Several Masques. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr Fielding. (London: Printed for John Watts, 1728). <Link to ECCO>
See Love In Several Masques. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr Fielding. (London: Printed for John Watts, 1728). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
