"Haste then, my Friend, to drive / That Cloud of Sorrow which o'recasts her Mind, / And, like the Sun, dispel her gloomy Thoughts."
— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date
1700
Metaphor
"Haste then, my Friend, to drive / That Cloud of Sorrow which o'recasts her Mind, / And, like the Sun, dispel her gloomy Thoughts."
Metaphor in Context
ARMANDO.
Cherish that Thought: By Heaven your Resolution
Transports my Soul with Joy!
A kind, a virtuous Wife waits your Embraces;
A Wife, who like a Turtle mourns the Absence
Of her dear Mate. Haste then, my Friend, to drive
That Cloud of Sorrow which o'recasts her Mind,
And, like the Sun, dispel her gloomy Thoughts.
(p. 16)
Cherish that Thought: By Heaven your Resolution
Transports my Soul with Joy!
A kind, a virtuous Wife waits your Embraces;
A Wife, who like a Turtle mourns the Absence
Of her dear Mate. Haste then, my Friend, to drive
That Cloud of Sorrow which o'recasts her Mind,
And, like the Sun, dispel her gloomy Thoughts.
(p. 16)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1700, 1720, 1737)
See The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy. As 'Twas Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by S. Carroll. (London: Printed for Bennet Banbury, at the Blue Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand, 1700).<Link to ESTC>
Text from The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mrs. Centlivre. (London: Printed for W. Feales, 1737). <>
See The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy. As 'Twas Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by S. Carroll. (London: Printed for Bennet Banbury, at the Blue Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand, 1700).<Link to ESTC>
Text from The Perjur'd Husband: or, the Adventures of Venice. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mrs. Centlivre. (London: Printed for W. Feales, 1737). <>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
