"If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree"
— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Author
Work Title
Date
1773
Metaphor
"If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree"
Metaphor in Context
My Reason is I, and your Reason is You,
And, if we shall differ, both cannot be true;
If Reason must judge, and we two must agree,
Another, third Reason must give the Decree,
Superior to ours, and to which it is fit
That both, being weaker, should freely submit.
Now, in Reason submitting is plainly implied
That it does not pretend, of itself, to decide.
And, if we shall differ, both cannot be true;
If Reason must judge, and we two must agree,
Another, third Reason must give the Decree,
Superior to ours, and to which it is fit
That both, being weaker, should freely submit.
Now, in Reason submitting is plainly implied
That it does not pretend, of itself, to decide.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "judge" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1773).
See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books> [Poem originally untitled]
Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books> [Poem originally untitled]
Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
Date of Entry
09/01/2004
