"When I confess, abhorrent of Deceit, / That Love, which seem'd to root my Soul in thee, / Has new transplanted it, to Elfrid's Bosom?"
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for L. Gilliver
Date
1731
Metaphor
"When I confess, abhorrent of Deceit, /
That Love, which seem'd to root my Soul in thee, / Has new transplanted it, to Elfrid's Bosom?"
Metaphor in Context
Athelwold.
What wilt thou say,
When thou shalt hear me own, That Fear is just?
When I confess, abhorrent of Deceit,
That Love, which seem'd to root my Soul in thee,
Has new transplanted it, to Elfrid's Bosom?
You start! as if my Guilt were yet a Secret,
Tho' Leolyn, confesses he has told it:
For, in his ill-retaining Breast, I trusted
The fatal Secret, of my double Falshood,
Both to my King, and thee. He should have added,
How I was lost.--That Will, and Faith, and Reason,
At once gave Way, beneath a Weight of Passion;
And against Judgment, Honour, Love of thee,
Fame, and Allegiance, I was born away,
Till she, who should have been my Master's Queen,
Deceiv'd, like thee, became,--oh!--turn aside
Thy Eyes--while I have Voice to say--my Wife.
(pp. 42-3)
What wilt thou say,
When thou shalt hear me own, That Fear is just?
When I confess, abhorrent of Deceit,
That Love, which seem'd to root my Soul in thee,
Has new transplanted it, to Elfrid's Bosom?
You start! as if my Guilt were yet a Secret,
Tho' Leolyn, confesses he has told it:
For, in his ill-retaining Breast, I trusted
The fatal Secret, of my double Falshood,
Both to my King, and thee. He should have added,
How I was lost.--That Will, and Faith, and Reason,
At once gave Way, beneath a Weight of Passion;
And against Judgment, Honour, Love of thee,
Fame, and Allegiance, I was born away,
Till she, who should have been my Master's Queen,
Deceiv'd, like thee, became,--oh!--turn aside
Thy Eyes--while I have Voice to say--my Wife.
(pp. 42-3)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in the ESTC (1731, 1732, 1760).
Athelwold: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for L. Gilliver, 1731.) <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Athelwold: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for L. Gilliver, 1731.) <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/21/2013
