...James I in his first speech to the English Parliament: "I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd, and it is my flock." 10 Milton was not about to slight Christ's position as head of the mystical body of the church. On...

...marriage to his realm.18 King James I told Parliament in 1603, 'I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd and it is my flock.'19 With respect to the title 'father', Erasmus wrote; The good prince ought to have the same...

...in his first speech to parliament, King James proclaimed, "I am the husband, and all the whole isle is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body," he removed all such ambiguity.6 He erected an impermeable barrier and put himself firmly on one side,...

...soon after gaining the crown of England. "I am the husband," he told Parliament, "and the whole Isle is my lawful wife; I am the head and it is my body." 106 The use of a metaphor does not necessarily imply any technical or scientific knowledge. When we...

...soon after gaining the crown of England. "I am the husband," he told Parliament, "and the whole Isle is my lawful wife; I am the head and it is my body" (Cohen, 1993, 30, 86). Such use of metaphor is part of rhetoric, a means of enhancing discourse that...

...God hath conioyned then, let no man separate. I am the Husband, and all the whole Isle is my lawful1 Wife; I am the Head, and it is my Body; I am the Shepherd, and it is my flocke: I hope therefore no man will be so vnreasonable as to think that I that am a Christian King...

...monarchy: upon his accession in 1603, he declared to Parliament that 'I am the husband and the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body." The imagery derives from St Paul on marriage. and the two statements are presented as synonymous. Mothers...

...controlling unities, here centred in the person of the shepherdking: I am the Hushand, and all the whole Isle is my lawful Wife; I am the Head, and it is my Body: I am the Shepherd, and it is my Flocke: I hope therefore no man will be so unreasonable as to thinke that I that am a Christian king...

...said: ' "What God hath conjoined then, let no man separate." I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd, and it is my flock.88 With the corpus mysticum tenet, however, England was indeed very familiar. After all, England's...

...to further his fashioning of a unified state: I am the Husband, and all the whole Isle is my lawfull Wife; I am the Head, and it is my Body; I am the Shepherd, and it is my flocke: I hope therefore no man will be so unreasonable as to thinke that I that am a Christian King...