This is the part of the frame story in the play where
Christopher Sly is dressed up and told by many that he is indeed a nobleman when he is
equal to the town drunk. It is part of the entertainment and a huge practical joke on
Sly, who of course, isn't easily convinced of his new position in
society.
You are looking for two metaphors--which are
comparisons between two unlike things. The most obvious would have to be the comparison
of Sly to a Lord. They keep asking him what he wants and loves and they will bring it
to him for his pleasure (all as a part of the ruse that they are his servants and he is
what they tell him he is). Look, for instance in the first stanza of the ecerpt: they
will bring him music (twenty caged nightingales to sing for him) or they will bring him
a couch if he would rather sleep, etc. In the last few lines of the excerpt they tell
him he is a Lord, and he has a lady as beautiful as any Lord who has shed many tears for
him.
As far as the hyperboles (extreme exaggerations), they
occur in what the gentleman say they will do to please their Lord
(Sly).
For example: they telll him they will bring him
paintings to please him and the paintings are done so masterfully as to seem lifelike as
Daphne running through the wood scratching her legs and bleeding from the picture. Or
Apollo crying with tears so real from the pain the thorns inflict on Daphne, his
love.
Another servant tells Sly that his beautiful lady has
shed tears for him like floods--that is an overexaggeration. She was also the fairest
creature in the world, yet inferior to none. Another hyperbole.
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