"How are the Soule and Body, Spirite and Flesh coupled together, what chaynes, what fetters imprison a spirituall Substance, an immortal Spirit in so base, stinking; and corruptible a carkasse?"
— Wright, Thomas (c. 1561-1623)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Valentine Simmes and Adam Islip for Walter Burre and Thomas Thorpe
Date
1604
Metaphor
"How are the Soule and Body, Spirite and Flesh coupled together, what chaynes, what fetters imprison a spirituall Substance, an immortal Spirit in so base, stinking; and corruptible a carkasse?"
Metaphor in Context
4 How are the Soule and Body, Spirite and Flesh coupled together, what chaynes, what fetters imprison a spirituall Substance, an immortal Spirit in so base, stinking; and corruptible a carkasse?
5 How, by punishing the flesh, or hurting the body, the Soule feeleth payne, and is afflicted.
6 Whether the hayres, spirites, blood, choler, fleugme, skinne, fatte, nayles, marrow, be animated, or no.
7 Whether the Bones and Teeth be sensitive, or no.
8 How the Soule contayneth those three degrees, of vegetative, sensitive, and reasonable.
9 How these three degrees do differ.
(p. 301)
5 How, by punishing the flesh, or hurting the body, the Soule feeleth payne, and is afflicted.
6 Whether the hayres, spirites, blood, choler, fleugme, skinne, fatte, nayles, marrow, be animated, or no.
7 Whether the Bones and Teeth be sensitive, or no.
8 How the Soule contayneth those three degrees, of vegetative, sensitive, and reasonable.
9 How these three degrees do differ.
(p. 301)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Joseph R. Roach, The Player's Passion (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), p. 29.
Citation
Four entries in ESTC (1604, 1620, 1621, and 1630).
Thomas Wright, The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. (London: Printed by Valentine Simmes [and Adam Islip] for Walter Burre [and Thomas Thorpe] and are to be sold [by Walter Burre] in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Crane, Anno. 1604). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Thomas Wright, The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. (London: Printed by Valentine Simmes [and Adam Islip] for Walter Burre [and Thomas Thorpe] and are to be sold [by Walter Burre] in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Crane, Anno. 1604). <
Date of Entry
04/26/2022
