"As no Man mind's those Clocks that use to go / Apparently to[o] over fast, or slow."
— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Author
Work Title
Date
1759
Metaphor
"As no Man mind's those Clocks that use to go / Apparently to[o] over fast, or slow."
Metaphor in Context
In all mistakes, The Strickt, and Regular,
Are found, to be the Desperatst ways to Erre:
And worst to be avoyded, as a wound
Is sayd to be, the harder Curd, that's Round:
For Error and mistake the less th' Appeare
In th' End are found to be the Dangrouser;
As no Man mind's those Clocks that use to go
Apparently to[o] over fast, or slow.
Are found, to be the Desperatst ways to Erre:
And worst to be avoyded, as a wound
Is sayd to be, the harder Curd, that's Round:
For Error and mistake the less th' Appeare
In th' End are found to be the Dangrouser;
As no Man mind's those Clocks that use to go
Apparently to[o] over fast, or slow.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "clock" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).
See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of The genuine remains in verse and prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of The genuine remains in verse and prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
11/16/2006
