"Your mind is tossing on the ocean"
— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date
1600
Metaphor
"Your mind is tossing on the ocean"
Metaphor in Context
ANTONIO
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me, you say it wearies you,
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me
That I have much ado to know myself.
SALERIO
Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
There where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signors and rich burghers on the flood --
Or as it were the pageants of the sea --
Do overpeer the petty traffickers
That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
(I.i.1-14)
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me, you say it wearies you,
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me
That I have much ado to know myself.
SALERIO
Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
There where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signors and rich burghers on the flood --
Or as it were the pageants of the sea --
Do overpeer the petty traffickers
That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
(I.i.1-14)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works. Oxford Shakespeare. Electronic Edition for the IBM PC. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, Editor.
Date of Entry
08/11/2003
