"Let Conscience, Nature's Monitor, control / Your Conduct, she is Guardian to your Soul."
— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1759
Metaphor
"Let Conscience, Nature's Monitor, control / Your Conduct, she is Guardian to your Soul."
Metaphor in Context
[...] Add Wisdom's Skill, to Dove-like Innocence,
Still act defensive, but give no Offence;
Think, e'er you act, weigh well in Reason's Scale
Each Action, and let Passion ne'er prevail;
Let Conscience, Nature's Monitor, control
Your Conduct, she is Guardian to your Soul;
She bids you, faithful to her Moral trust,
Be wise, yet honest, merciful, yet just;
She prompting dictates what you ought to do,
Listen, attentive to her Dictates true.
(p. 87)
Still act defensive, but give no Offence;
Think, e'er you act, weigh well in Reason's Scale
Each Action, and let Passion ne'er prevail;
Let Conscience, Nature's Monitor, control
Your Conduct, she is Guardian to your Soul;
She bids you, faithful to her Moral trust,
Be wise, yet honest, merciful, yet just;
She prompting dictates what you ought to do,
Listen, attentive to her Dictates true.
(p. 87)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).
Text from Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq. (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq. (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
10/28/2013
