"You, the miser's haunt be near; / Break his rest with causeless fear, / Creak his doors, his windows shake, / 'Till his iron heart shall quake."
— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for H. Payne and W. Cropley
Date
1761
Metaphor
"You, the miser's haunt be near; / Break his rest with causeless fear, / Creak his doors, his windows shake, / 'Till his iron heart shall quake."
Metaphor in Context
ELFINA.
Hist--break off!--My charge receive;
Then renew the sports ye leave.
[They leave off dancing; the music ceases; and Elfina beckons first one, then another, speaking to them separately].
When the midnight hour is nigh,
Duteous to your tasks apply.
You, the miser's haunt be near;
Break his rest with causeless fear,
Creak his doors, his windows shake,
'Till his iron heart shall quake.
You, as gouty humours flow,
Pinch the glutton by the toe.
You, with boding dreams molest
Proud ambition's anxious breast.
You, with fancied ghosts affright
Atheists in their own despight:
Bold by day, the blust'ring spark
Turns believer in the dark.
Hence--of vice to work the woe,
And the weal of virtue, go!--
(I.i, p. 2)
Hist--break off!--My charge receive;
Then renew the sports ye leave.
[They leave off dancing; the music ceases; and Elfina beckons first one, then another, speaking to them separately].
When the midnight hour is nigh,
Duteous to your tasks apply.
You, the miser's haunt be near;
Break his rest with causeless fear,
Creak his doors, his windows shake,
'Till his iron heart shall quake.
You, as gouty humours flow,
Pinch the glutton by the toe.
You, with boding dreams molest
Proud ambition's anxious breast.
You, with fancied ghosts affright
Atheists in their own despight:
Bold by day, the blust'ring spark
Turns believer in the dark.
Hence--of vice to work the woe,
And the weal of virtue, go!--
(I.i, p. 2)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "iron" in HDIS (Drama); found again ECCO-TCP
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1761, 1777).
See Edgar and Emmeline; a Fairy Tale: In a Dramatic Entertainment of Two Acts; As it is Performed at The Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane (London: Printed for H. Payne and W. Cropley, 1761). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See Edgar and Emmeline; a Fairy Tale: In a Dramatic Entertainment of Two Acts; As it is Performed at The Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane (London: Printed for H. Payne and W. Cropley, 1761). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/08/2005
