"While in the Mint of her projecting Mind, Against the Mice, deep Stratagems are coin'd"
— Needler, Henry (1690-1718); Duncombe, William (1690-1769)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
J. Watts
Date
1724
Metaphor
"While in the Mint of her projecting Mind, Against the Mice, deep Stratagems are coin'd"
Metaphor in Context
Alas! poor Tabby's dead! who can deny
On Tabby's Death to write an Elegy?
Whose useful Merit in such various Ways
Deserves the just Remembrance of our Lays;
Who by her watchful Care, while others slept,
Secure from thievish Mice the Pantry kept;
And by her purring Song and wanton Play,
Solac'd the Winter-Nights, and drove sad Thoughts away.
But what, alas! can Songs or Wiles avail,
When Death does with his mortal Dart assail?
What Musick can his sullen Ear delight?
What Swiftness can preserve by nimble Flight?
Now on the Hearth, methinks, I see her sit,
With Mein Majestick and with solemn State;
A Royal Robe of sable Furr she wears,
And spotted Ermin on her Bosom bears,
While in the Mint of her projecting Mind,
Against the Mice, deep Stratagems are coin'd.
Her Death let all the purring Race attend,
And mourn in Mews and Catterwauls her End;
With solemn Rites, each Night, surround her Grave,
And her lov'd Mem'ry from Oblivion save.
On Tabby's Death to write an Elegy?
Whose useful Merit in such various Ways
Deserves the just Remembrance of our Lays;
Who by her watchful Care, while others slept,
Secure from thievish Mice the Pantry kept;
And by her purring Song and wanton Play,
Solac'd the Winter-Nights, and drove sad Thoughts away.
But what, alas! can Songs or Wiles avail,
When Death does with his mortal Dart assail?
What Musick can his sullen Ear delight?
What Swiftness can preserve by nimble Flight?
Now on the Hearth, methinks, I see her sit,
With Mein Majestick and with solemn State;
A Royal Robe of sable Furr she wears,
And spotted Ermin on her Bosom bears,
While in the Mint of her projecting Mind,
Against the Mice, deep Stratagems are coin'd.
Her Death let all the purring Race attend,
And mourn in Mews and Catterwauls her End;
With solemn Rites, each Night, surround her Grave,
And her lov'd Mem'ry from Oblivion save.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "coin" in HDIS (Poetry); found again mint
Date of Entry
04/14/2005
