Genre Theory and Historical Change by Ralph Cohen John L. Rowlett

Author:Ralph Cohen,John L. Rowlett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Coopers Hill incorporates this allusion in a political comparison:

When a calme River rais’d with sudden raines,

Or Snowes dissolv’d o’reflowes th’adjoyning Plaines,

The Husbandmen with high rais’d bankes secure

Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure.

But if with Bays, and Dammes they strive to force,

His channell to a new, or narrow course,

No longer then within his bankes he dwels,

First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swels;

Stronger, and fiercer by restraint, he roares,

And knowes no bound, but makes his powers his shores:

Thus Kings by grasping more then they can hold,

First made their Subjects by oppressions bold,

And popular sway by forcing Kings to give

More, then was fit for Subjects to receive,

Ranne to the same extreame; and one excesse

Made both, by stirring to be greater, lesse. (1642; 333–48)

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