"Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel."
— Gay, John (1685-1732)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1713
Metaphor
"Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel."
Metaphor in Context
ALISON, WIFE OF BATH
Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel.--Come, come, a Woman's Love is not so easily quenched neither--'Slidikins, the Poet knew our Temper to a Hair, that said--
Women's Love is like Wild-fire
The more it burneth the more it doth desire.
(III.i, p. 29)
Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel.--Come, come, a Woman's Love is not so easily quenched neither--'Slidikins, the Poet knew our Temper to a Hair, that said--
Women's Love is like Wild-fire
The more it burneth the more it doth desire.
(III.i, p. 29)
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Citation
First performed May 12, 1713. At least 3 entries in ESTC (1713, 1730).
The Wife of Bath. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. By Mr Gay (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1713).
The Wife of Bath. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. By Mr Gay (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1713).
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
