"My Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside"?
— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Newcombe
Date
1677
Metaphor
"My Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside"?
Metaphor in Context
SIR ARTH.
Mode--ah good Sir, no more o'that, no Modes I beseech you: my Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside: Sir, in brief, 'tis more than the Kings three Dominions can purchase.
(III.i)
Mode--ah good Sir, no more o'that, no Modes I beseech you: my Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside: Sir, in brief, 'tis more than the Kings three Dominions can purchase.
(III.i)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
3 entries in the ESTC (1677, 1682, 1691).
Madam Fickle: Or the Witty False One. A Comedy. As it is Acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre. (London: Printed by Thomas Newcombe, 1677). <Link to EEBO>
Madam Fickle: Or the Witty False One. A Comedy. As it is Acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre. (London: Printed by Thomas Newcombe, 1677). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
11/30/2005
