forg'd

If, as Nelson Hilton suggests, "man serves as his own jailor, imprisoned by his vocabulary, culture, and perception," in Blake's game it is the role of the senses — enhanced by multimedia, and further enhanced by virtual immersion — to liberate humans from their "mind forg'd manacles" (Hilton, qtd. in Marsh, 232).

Blake's Contraries Game 2005

Though strong-limb'd Vulcan forg'd it by his skill

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890

Though strong-limb'd Vulcan forg'd it by his skill

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878

They forg'd strange Stories of him, defam'd him, run him into Jayl upon frivolous and groundless Occasions, represented him as a Monster of a Man, told their Story so plain, and made it so specious, that even the Crolians themselves to their Shame, believ'd it, and took up

The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

In short, they seiz'd him without any Crime alledg'd, took violently from him his Licence, as a Crolian Priest, by which the Law justify'd what he had done, pretending it was forg'd, and after very ill

The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

And straight he gave me Arms well forg'd from Heav'n,

The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689

With his forg'd Scrowls for Guiltless Blood prepared.

Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden Elkanah Settle 1686

I'll say you forg'd 'em, and put 'em in -- or print every one of 'em, and own 'em, as long as they were writ and publisht in London, Sir.

The City Heiress 1682

What Fool has forg'd this unlikely Lye? but suppose 'twere true, cou'd you be jealous of a Woman I marry?

The City Heiress 1682

Though strong limb'd Vulcan forg'd it by his skill

Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight 1678