"Your Mate will quit this Honour-blasting Vice, / If he would be reputed good, and wise; / Reason, her Throne usurp'd, again will claim, / And Lust of Gaming yield to Love of Fame."
— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1759
Metaphor
"Your Mate will quit this Honour-blasting Vice, / If he would be reputed good, and wise; / Reason, her Throne usurp'd, again will claim, / And Lust of Gaming yield to Love of Fame."
Metaphor in Context
[...] In modish Grandeur, these the World enjoy.
Your Mate will quit this Honour-blasting Vice,
If he would be reputed good, and wise;
Reason, her Throne usurp'd, again will claim,
And Lust of Gaming yield to Love of Fame;
Of you regardful, and his Offspring dear,
He will, to soft Persuasions, lend an Ear.
(pp. 249-250)
Your Mate will quit this Honour-blasting Vice,
If he would be reputed good, and wise;
Reason, her Throne usurp'd, again will claim,
And Lust of Gaming yield to Love of Fame;
Of you regardful, and his Offspring dear,
He will, to soft Persuasions, lend an Ear.
(pp. 249-250)
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
