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Date: 1709

"Honour! the fatal Tumor of the Mind; / From which our Modern Gentry take their Bent, / And think they're Noble, if they're Insolent."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Tho' fled from Justice to evade his Sin, / Can he suppress the living Judge within?"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

Guilt may "to the Soul it's frightful Message speak" while "Terror, Despair, and all the grizly Crew: / Those direful Vultures on [the] Soul shall gnaw"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.