text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"TRURO
In this manner did they treacherously deceive our harmless fathers. They were marked as criminals, when in the midst of serenity and innocence, they knew no transgression. If you should ever meet a company of wretches like these, you would take them for a string of malefactors. Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork.--Their fettered hands are not at liberty to wipe off the sweat. It is with tears alone that they can wash the blood and sweat from their faces.--In this manner you conduct your slaves to market. Your cattle at least go free to the slaughter-house.
(II.iii, p. 64)",2011-07-27 19:09:20 UTC,"""Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork.""",2011-07-27 19:09:20 UTC,"Act II, scene iii","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Prose)",19023,7034
"ZAMEO
(Embraces William's knees) Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!
(II.vi, p. 87)",2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"""Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!""",2011-07-27 19:11:17 UTC,"Act II, scene vi","",,Fetters,"",Reading,19024,7034
"ADA
Are only those in bonds who have cords around them? Alas! there are invisible fetters which no mortal can wrench! both soft and firm are the bonds of virtue, no force can loosen its strong ties, no sword divide it from my soul! it has guided me from childhood to the age of woman, it presided over my marriage, it has attended me in all my wretchedness, nor will it forsake me at the hour of death.--Away! amulet formed of serpents heads, which a priest once gave me! (She tears it from her neck, and casts it from her) virtue is the only amulet! it cools in feverish heats, and warms in feverish chills! with virtue, as with love, one may live happily under a roof of palm-leaves! virtue and love give a life of serenity, and a gentle death.--Ah! what numbering vigor is awakened in me! I am no more what I was, my heart expands, my bosom swells, some being which I do not know inspires me, an inward glow destroys fear and dries up my eyes! I have no tears--I tremble not--I can meet death!--Go, old man, say to my Zameo, thou hast found me thus; go, say to my tyrant, I await him.
(III.ii, pp. 107-8)",2011-07-27 19:15:58 UTC,"""Alas! there are invisible fetters which no mortal can wrench! both soft and firm are the bonds of virtue, no force can loosen its strong ties, no sword divide it from my soul! it has guided me from childhood to the age of woman, it presided over my marriage, it has attended me in all my wretchedness, nor will it forsake me at the hour of death.""",2011-07-27 19:15:58 UTC,"Act III, scene ii","",,Fetters,"",Reading,19027,7034