For kings some services I've done
- DMI number:
- 11985
- First Line:
- For kings some services I've done
- Last Line:
- Give mercy to this medley liver
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Epitaph, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Religion[Scepticism - Uncertainty]
- Translated from:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Translation of Latin text T106190 p. 140, which is labelled 'Epitaphium in Ducem Buck. sem | Per Seipsum Scriptum.' Note: for more on this epitaph, see Universal Magazine 20 (April 1757), p. 148.
- Title:
- A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- And Thus.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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