"But though my Person, nor my Wealth, should find / A room unfurnish'd in your well-built mind: / I'll rather be for plain defects despis'd, / Than for low cheats and false Perfections, priz'd"
— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. N. For Henry Herringman [etc.]
Date
1675
Metaphor
"But though my Person, nor my Wealth, should find / A room unfurnish'd in your well-built mind: / I'll rather be for plain defects despis'd, / Than for low cheats and false Perfections, priz'd"
Metaphor in Context
PARH.
Sir, you may judge, by th' actions of this hour,
That I can keep my promise, use my pow'r.
Perhaps my Rival, by her needy Art
And first assaults, has prepossest your Heart;
But though my Person, nor my Wealth, should find
A room unfurnish'd in your well-built mind:
I'll rather be for plain defects despis'd,
Than for low cheats and false Perfections, priz'd.
Sir, you may judge, by th' actions of this hour,
That I can keep my promise, use my pow'r.
Perhaps my Rival, by her needy Art
And first assaults, has prepossest your Heart;
But though my Person, nor my Wealth, should find
A room unfurnish'd in your well-built mind:
I'll rather be for plain defects despis'd,
Than for low cheats and false Perfections, priz'd.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "thought" and "allay" (for "alloy") in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
05/25/2005
Date of Review
01/20/2009
