"For men haue marble, women waxen mindes / And therefore are they form'd as marble will, / The weake opprest, th'impression of strange kindes / Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill."
— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison [etc.]
Date
1594
Metaphor
"For men haue marble, women waxen mindes / And therefore are they form'd as marble will, / The weake opprest, th'impression of strange kindes / Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill."
Metaphor in Context
For men haue marble, women waxen mindes,
And therefore are they form'd as marble will,
The weake opprest, th'impression of strange kindes
Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill.
Then call them not the Authors of their ill,
No more then waxe shall be accounted euill,
VVherein is stampt the semblance of a Deuill.
And therefore are they form'd as marble will,
The weake opprest, th'impression of strange kindes
Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill.
Then call them not the Authors of their ill,
No more then waxe shall be accounted euill,
VVherein is stampt the semblance of a Deuill.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "wax" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/27/2005
