"For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest, / Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast."

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Tho. Basset ... Will. Hensman ... Tho. Fox [etc.]
Date
1689
Metaphor
"For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest, / Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast."
Metaphor in Context
I shall expect so great an interest
For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest,
Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast.
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "cabinet" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
09/07/2005

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