"Mark well my words--discolour not thy soul / With the black hue of crimes like his."
— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Printed for P. Vaillant
Publisher
London
Date
1759
Metaphor
"Mark well my words--discolour not thy soul / With the black hue of crimes like his."
Metaphor in Context
TIMURKAN.
A husband's right!--a traitor has no right--
Society disclaims him--Woman, hear--
Mark well my words--discolour not thy soul
With the black hue of crimes like his--renounce
All hymeneal vows, and take again,
Your much lov'd boy to his fond mother's arms,
While justice whirls that traitor to his fate.
(III, p. 51)
A husband's right!--a traitor has no right--
Society disclaims him--Woman, hear--
Mark well my words--discolour not thy soul
With the black hue of crimes like his--renounce
All hymeneal vows, and take again,
Your much lov'd boy to his fond mother's arms,
While justice whirls that traitor to his fate.
(III, p. 51)
Categories
Provenance
LION
Citation
First performed April 21, 1759. 10 entries in ESTC (1759, 1761, 1763, 1772, 1787, 1797).
Text from The Orphan of China, A Tragedy, As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for P. Vaillant, 1759).
Text from The Orphan of China, A Tragedy, As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for P. Vaillant, 1759).
Date of Entry
11/18/2013
