"As Irish Lovers use to make Address / By Darting Rushes at their Mistresses, / That do more Execution then the Darts / And Bows and Arrows [are] us'd to Conquer hearts."
— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Author
Work Title
Date
1928
Metaphor
"As Irish Lovers use to make Address / By Darting Rushes at their Mistresses, / That do more Execution then the Darts / And Bows and Arrows [are] us'd to Conquer hearts."
Metaphor in Context
As Irish Lovers use to make Adress
By Darting Rushes at their Mistresses,
That do more Execution then the Darts
And Bows and Arrows us'd to Conquer hearts.
By Darting Rushes at their Mistresses,
That do more Execution then the Darts
And Bows and Arrows us'd to Conquer hearts.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).
Date of Entry
02/09/2005
Date of Review
05/27/2011
