First bait thy hook with deep dissembled love
- DMI number:
- 14540
- First Line:
- First bait thy hook with deep dissembled love
- Last Line:
- The whetstone of abated valour 's shame
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Virgin Widow' Act 3 Scene 1. (1649, ESTC R21344).
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Quarles's Virgin Widow
- Attributed To:
- Francis Quarles
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