"Ha! Distraction wild / Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain: / Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare; / My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg, / My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head; / My reeling Head! which akes like any mad."
— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Watts
Date
June 1, 1732
Metaphor
"Ha! Distraction wild / Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain: / Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare; / My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg, / My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head; / My reeling Head! which akes like any mad."
Metaphor in Context
GALLONO.
Ha! see him! where?
Where is the much-lov'd Youth---oh! never more
Shall I behold him. Ha! Distraction wild
Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain:
Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare;
My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg,
My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head;
My reeling Head! which akes like any mad.
(p. 30)
Ha! see him! where?
Where is the much-lov'd Youth---oh! never more
Shall I behold him. Ha! Distraction wild
Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain:
Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare;
My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg,
My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head;
My reeling Head! which akes like any mad.
(p. 30)
Categories
Provenance
LION
Citation
First performed June 1, 1732. 4 entries in the ESTC (1732, 1754, 1755, 1780).
Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by His Majesty's Servants (London: Printed for J. Watts, and Sold by J. Roberts. 1732). <Link to ECCO>
Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by His Majesty's Servants (London: Printed for J. Watts, and Sold by J. Roberts. 1732). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/20/2013
