"Look on the Boy, / And let his manly Face, which promiseth / Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart / To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him."
— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date
1723
Metaphor
"Look on the Boy, / And let his manly Face, which promiseth / Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart / To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him."
Metaphor in Context
QUEEN.
Ambitious York did level at thy Crown,
Thou smiling while he knit his angry Brows;
He but a Duke wou'd have his Son a King,
And raise his Issue, like a loving Sire.
Thou being a King, blest with a goodly Son,
Didst yield Consent to disinherit him,
Which argu'd thee a most unloving Father.
Unreasonable Creatures feed their Young;
And tho' Man's Face be fearful to their Eyes,
Yet in Protection of their tender Ones,
Who hath not seen 'em, even with those Wings
Which sometimes they have us'd with fearful Flight,
Make War with him that climb'd unto their Nest,
Off'ring their own Lives in their Young's Defence.
For shame then, Henry, make them your President;
Were it not pity that this goodly Boy
Shou'd lose his Birthright by his Father's Fault,
And long hereafter say unto his Child,
What my great Grandfather, and Grandsire, got,
My careless Father fondly gave away?
Ah, what a Shame were this--Look on the Boy,
And let his manly Face, which promiseth
Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart
To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him.
(IV.i, p. 43)
Ambitious York did level at thy Crown,
Thou smiling while he knit his angry Brows;
He but a Duke wou'd have his Son a King,
And raise his Issue, like a loving Sire.
Thou being a King, blest with a goodly Son,
Didst yield Consent to disinherit him,
Which argu'd thee a most unloving Father.
Unreasonable Creatures feed their Young;
And tho' Man's Face be fearful to their Eyes,
Yet in Protection of their tender Ones,
Who hath not seen 'em, even with those Wings
Which sometimes they have us'd with fearful Flight,
Make War with him that climb'd unto their Nest,
Off'ring their own Lives in their Young's Defence.
For shame then, Henry, make them your President;
Were it not pity that this goodly Boy
Shou'd lose his Birthright by his Father's Fault,
And long hereafter say unto his Child,
What my great Grandfather, and Grandsire, got,
My careless Father fondly gave away?
Ah, what a Shame were this--Look on the Boy,
And let his manly Face, which promiseth
Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart
To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him.
(IV.i, p. 43)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1723).
An Historical Tragedy of the Civil Wars in the Reign of King Henry VI. (Being a Sequel to the Tragedy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester: and a Introduction to the Tragical History of King Richard III.) Alter’d from Shakespear, in the Year 1720. By Theo. Cibber. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, Jun. in Cornhill; W. Chetwood, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall: and sold by J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, [1723?]). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO-TCP>
An Historical Tragedy of the Civil Wars in the Reign of King Henry VI. (Being a Sequel to the Tragedy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester: and a Introduction to the Tragical History of King Richard III.) Alter’d from Shakespear, in the Year 1720. By Theo. Cibber. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, Jun. in Cornhill; W. Chetwood, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall: and sold by J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, [1723?]). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
