Gentle or simple reader cross or kind
- DMI number:
- 20721
- First Line:
- Gentle or simple reader cross or kind
- Last Line:
- Should he be yet alive and what care I
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Mock elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death, Poetry / literature / writing, and Sex and bawdy humour
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- pp.192-197
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy On Capt. Molineux, commonly call'd Wife and No Wife; who was supps'd to have been most barb'rously strangled by an inhuman Strumpet, with his own Two-leg'd-wig in 1728.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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