"Sad Frailty howere both Body, Mind display, / That brighter Coin bad Mixture does Allay."
— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for William Crook
Date
1684
Metaphor
"Sad Frailty howere both Body, Mind display, / That brighter Coin bad Mixture does Allay."
Metaphor in Context
Last, Humane Rank, grounds Moral, Rational;
What Noble, Wise, and Good in Men they call:
What Best befits, and Graces ev'ry Action;
Knowing themselves, conjoyn'd, that satisfaction.
With curious Arts and Tongues, State-Wisdom too
Man furnish'd seem'd, much knows and much can do.
Sad Frailty howere both Body, Mind display,
That brighter Coin bad Mixture does Allay;
Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown
Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne.
Joyn'd Crosses, Cares o'th' World, sad Accidents
Disturbing too (dreadful as strange Events)
From Men, from furious Beasts; things nam'd before,
Fire, Water-floods, &c. Nature's Destructive store.
What Noble, Wise, and Good in Men they call:
What Best befits, and Graces ev'ry Action;
Knowing themselves, conjoyn'd, that satisfaction.
With curious Arts and Tongues, State-Wisdom too
Man furnish'd seem'd, much knows and much can do.
Sad Frailty howere both Body, Mind display,
That brighter Coin bad Mixture does Allay;
Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown
Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne.
Joyn'd Crosses, Cares o'th' World, sad Accidents
Disturbing too (dreadful as strange Events)
From Men, from furious Beasts; things nam'd before,
Fire, Water-floods, &c. Nature's Destructive store.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "coin" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
The Grecian Story: Being an Historical Poem, in Five Books. To which is Annex'd the Grove: Consisting of Divers Shorter Poems Upon Several Subjects (London: William Crook, 1684).
Theme
Mind and Body
Date of Entry
04/14/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
