For those who heretofore sought private holes
- DMI number:
- 30078
- First Line:
- For those who heretofore sought private holes
- Last Line:
- With all their utmost vigour to be damned
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Satire and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice[impudence]
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Satyr upon the licentious age of Charles the II' ('Tis a strange Age we've liv'd in, and a lewd'); Lamar (1928): 40-1.
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Impudence
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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