"Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise"
— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Luke Hansard
Date
w. 1742-1750, 1803
Metaphor
"Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise"
Metaphor in Context
So wills that darke and sable-stoled Mage,
Who in those walles his art dothe exercise;
Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age;
Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries
Can melt his iron heart in any wise:
Als by his power and virtue magicalle,
A wond'rous yoke about their neckes he ties,
Which eft their tender skinnes doth frette and galle,
All silkenne as it seems, with sore and endlesse thralle.
Who in those walles his art dothe exercise;
Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age;
Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries
Can melt his iron heart in any wise:
Als by his power and virtue magicalle,
A wond'rous yoke about their neckes he ties,
Which eft their tender skinnes doth frette and galle,
All silkenne as it seems, with sore and endlesse thralle.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "iron" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge. Including Several Pieces Never Before Published: With an Account of His Life and Character, by His Son, George Owen Cambridge (London: Printed by Luke Hansard and sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies and T. Payne, 1803).
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See entry at Spenser and the Tradition <Link>
Date of Entry
07/19/2004
