"Our mem'ries like the Cullender that streins / Pure liquor out, but drossie dregs reteins"
— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1667
Metaphor
"Our mem'ries like the Cullender that streins / Pure liquor out, but drossie dregs reteins"
Metaphor in Context
200. On a Cullender.
Our mem'ries like the Cullender that streins
Pure liquor out, but drossie dregs reteins.
Our mem'ries like the Cullender that streins
Pure liquor out, but drossie dregs reteins.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Nicholas Billingsley, Thesauro-Phylakion, or A Treasury of Divine Raptures. Consisting of Serious Observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically Rank'd and Fil'd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. (London: Parkhurst, 1667). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
08/07/2004
