"Consult your mind, consult your glass, / Each charm of sense and youth; / Then own, who changes is an ass, / Nor wonder at my truth."
— Anonymous
Author
Work Title
Date
[1738], 1758
Metaphor
"Consult your mind, consult your glass, / Each charm of sense and youth; / Then own, who changes is an ass, / Nor wonder at my truth."
Metaphor in Context
V.
Forgive me, fair reflected shade,
That I suppress this flame:
Who can pursue th' ideal maid,
Bless'd in the real dame?
VI.
Consult your mind, consult your glass,
Each charm of sense and youth;
Then own, who changes is an ass,
Nor wonder at my truth.
(V, p. 277)
Forgive me, fair reflected shade,
That I suppress this flame:
Who can pursue th' ideal maid,
Bless'd in the real dame?
VI.
Consult your mind, consult your glass,
Each charm of sense and youth;
Then own, who changes is an ass,
Nor wonder at my truth.
(V, p. 277)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "glass" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
Text from A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, 6 vols. (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/18/2013
