Guy eats all day and letchers all the night
- DMI number:
- 14895
- First Line:
- Guy eats all day and letchers all the night
- Last Line:
- Lust it comes out that gluttony went in
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sesta rima / ababcc and Epigram
- Themes:
- Food and drink, Sex and bawdy humour, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bevington (2012) V: 181.
- 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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Epigrams
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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