The "Amorous fire inkindled in my brest" receives little nourishment "By giving me your hand and denying me the rest"
— Anonymous; Corneille (1606-1684)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Simon Neale [etc.]
Date
1685
Metaphor
The "Amorous fire inkindled in my brest" receives little nourishment "By giving me your hand and denying me the rest"
Metaphor in Context
DOR.
Think me not Lady so presumptuous to imagine by any merit or desert of mine to deserve your least of Favours; I better know to set the right value and esteem on them than so, and the less I deserve them count my happiness the more I know too, how without injury you might have denyed them me; if then my heart repine 'tis only for being so unhappy in my happiness you shou'd oblige me without design--it is the intention, sets value on the Act and a kind of undervaluing things
To do them without it, the favour then is but small,
To give me y'r hand, 'less you give me your Heart withall;
and judge how little nourishment that fire receives,
That Amorous fire inkindled in my brest,
By giving me your hand and denying me the rest.
Think me not Lady so presumptuous to imagine by any merit or desert of mine to deserve your least of Favours; I better know to set the right value and esteem on them than so, and the less I deserve them count my happiness the more I know too, how without injury you might have denyed them me; if then my heart repine 'tis only for being so unhappy in my happiness you shou'd oblige me without design--it is the intention, sets value on the Act and a kind of undervaluing things
To do them without it, the favour then is but small,
To give me y'r hand, 'less you give me your Heart withall;
and judge how little nourishment that fire receives,
That Amorous fire inkindled in my brest,
By giving me your hand and denying me the rest.
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Date of Entry
11/15/2004
