Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined
- DMI number:
- 23813
- First Line:
- Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined
- Last Line:
- Always in their dear mistress's company
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Wit and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Composite extracts w. variants from 'The Mine of Wit' and 'Similizing Birds to a Ship'. Cavendish (1653): 153-154, 142-143.
- Title:
- A select collection of original love letters, to which are sub-join'd poems by eminent ladies [T82903]
- Page No(s):
- pp.111-112
- Poem Title:
- Wit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T42592] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.207-208
- Poem Title:
- Wit.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T60050] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- Wit.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- Title:
- Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. II]
- Page No(s):
- pp.207-208
- Poem Title:
- Wit.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
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