"I have Imbezell'd all the Furniture of my Soul and body in vice, though Heaven gave me an excellent House-keeper to look to it all, a careful wakeful Creature, call'd a Conscience, which never slept, never let me sleep in ill, but I abus'd her, sought to turn her out of doors, nay, Murder her, but cou'd not."
— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Bently ... and Joseph Hindmarsh [etc.]
Date
1683
Metaphor
"I have Imbezell'd all the Furniture of my Soul and body in vice, though Heaven gave me an excellent House-keeper to look to it all, a careful wakeful Creature, call'd a Conscience, which never slept, never let me sleep in ill, but I abus'd her, sought to turn her out of doors, nay, Murder her, but cou'd not."
Metaphor in Context
ART.
How hast thou brought on this Youth all the Infirmities of Age? my eyes are dim, my breath is short, my Limbs are weak, Limbs did I say? I have none, at least of Heaven's making: I have Imbezell'd all the Furniture of my Soul and body in vice, though Heaven gave me an excellent House-keeper to look to it all, a careful wakeful Creature, call'd a Conscience, which never slept, never let me sleep in ill, but I abus'd her, sought to turn her out of doors, nay, Murder her, but cou'd not.
How hast thou brought on this Youth all the Infirmities of Age? my eyes are dim, my breath is short, my Limbs are weak, Limbs did I say? I have none, at least of Heaven's making: I have Imbezell'd all the Furniture of my Soul and body in vice, though Heaven gave me an excellent House-keeper to look to it all, a careful wakeful Creature, call'd a Conscience, which never slept, never let me sleep in ill, but I abus'd her, sought to turn her out of doors, nay, Murder her, but cou'd not.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "furniture" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
01/24/2006
