Thomas Middleton Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Thomas Middleton


Blind as one that hath been found drunk a seven-night.	1
Blessed eyes, like a pair of suns, Shine in the sphere of smiling.	2
Fearless as a drunkard.	3
Grosse as a hog.	4
Limber as eelskins.	5
Lurk, like a snake under the innocent shade Of a spread summer-leaf.	6
Base lust, With all her powders, paintings, and best pride, Is but a fair house built by a ditch side.	7
Prosper as gardener’s crops do in the rottenest ground.	8
Pure as sanctity’s best shrine.	9
Round as a tun.	10
Salute as ceremoniously as lawyers when they meet after a long vacation.	11
True as a barber’s news on Saturday night.	12
Honest wedlock, Is like a banqueting house built in a garden, On which the spring’s chaste flowers take delight To cast their modest odours.	13
I must seem like a hanging moon, a little waterish for a while.	14
Wriggle in and out like an eel in a sandbag.	15
Writs like wild-fowl, fly abroad, And then return o’er cities, towns, and hills, With clients, like dried straws, between their bills.	16