"I see it a bad exchange to wound a mans owne Conscience, thereby to salve State sores; to calme the stormes of popular discontents, by stirring up a tempest in a mans owne bosome."

— Charles I (1600-1649); Gauden, John (1605-1662)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
[Printed for R. Royston]
Date
1649
Metaphor
"I see it a bad exchange to wound a mans owne Conscience, thereby to salve State sores; to calme the stormes of popular discontents, by stirring up a tempest in a mans owne bosome."
Metaphor in Context
I see it a bad exchange to wound a mans owne Conscience, thereby to salve State sores; to calme the stormes of popular discontents, by stirring up a tempest in a mans owne bosome.
(p. 6)
Provenance
Reading Keith Thomas' "Cases of Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England." In Public Duty and Private Conscience, edited by P. Slack J. Morill, and D. Woolf, 29-56. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Citation
Almack, Edward, ed. Eikon Basilike: or, The King's book. London: Chatto and Windus, 1907. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
01/21/2010

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