"I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor!"
— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Watts
Date
January 10, 1728.
Metaphor
"I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor!"
Metaphor in Context
LADY TOWNLY
I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor! 'tis there! there my Lord, you are wounded; you have less to complain of than many Husbands of an equal Rank to you.
LORD TOWNLY
Death, Madam! do you presume upon your Corporal Merit! that your Person's less tainted, than your Mind! is it there! there alone an honest Husband can be injur'd? Have you not every other Vice that can debase your Birth, or stain the Heart of Woman? Is not your Health, your Beauty, Husband, Fortune, Family disclaim'd, for Nights consum'd in Riot and Extravagance? The Wanton does no more; if she conceals her Shame, does less: And sure the Dissolute avow'd, as sorely wrongs my Honour, and my Quiet.
(p. 80)
I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor! 'tis there! there my Lord, you are wounded; you have less to complain of than many Husbands of an equal Rank to you.
LORD TOWNLY
Death, Madam! do you presume upon your Corporal Merit! that your Person's less tainted, than your Mind! is it there! there alone an honest Husband can be injur'd? Have you not every other Vice that can debase your Birth, or stain the Heart of Woman? Is not your Health, your Beauty, Husband, Fortune, Family disclaim'd, for Nights consum'd in Riot and Extravagance? The Wanton does no more; if she conceals her Shame, does less: And sure the Dissolute avow'd, as sorely wrongs my Honour, and my Quiet.
(p. 80)
Categories
Provenance
LION
Citation
Over 43 entries in the ESTC (1728, 1729, 1731, 1734, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1741, 1748, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1760, 1761, 1767, 1768, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1794, 1798).
See The Provok'd Husband; or A Journey to London. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty's Servants. Written by the late Sir John Vanburgh, and Mr. Cibber (London: Printed for J. Watts, 1728). <Link to ECCO>
See The Provok'd Husband; or A Journey to London. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty's Servants. Written by the late Sir John Vanburgh, and Mr. Cibber (London: Printed for J. Watts, 1728). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/19/2013
