"Reason rules within, and keeps the throne / While the inferior faculties obey, / And all her laws with reluctance own"
— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. B. for Bernard Lintott
Date
1703
Metaphor
"Reason rules within, and keeps the throne / While the inferior faculties obey, / And all her laws with reluctance own"
Metaphor in Context
If Reason rules within, and keeps the throne,
While the inferior faculties obey,
And all her laws without reluctance own,
Accounting none more fit, more just than they;
If Virtue my free soul unsullied keeps,
Exempting it from passion and from stain,
If no black guilty thoughts disturb my sleeps,
And no past crimes my vexed remembrance pain;
(ll. 9-16, p. 4)
While the inferior faculties obey,
And all her laws without reluctance own,
Accounting none more fit, more just than they;
If Virtue my free soul unsullied keeps,
Exempting it from passion and from stain,
If no black guilty thoughts disturb my sleeps,
And no past crimes my vexed remembrance pain;
(ll. 9-16, p. 4)
Provenance
Reading; found again searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 5 entries in the ESTC (1703, 1709, 1713, 1722, 1750).
The Lady Chudleigh, Poems on Several Occasions. Together with the Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd (London: Bernard Lintott, 1703). <Link to Google Books>
See also Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
The Lady Chudleigh, Poems on Several Occasions. Together with the Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd (London: Bernard Lintott, 1703). <Link to Google Books>
See also Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
Date of Review
06/10/2004
