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Heaven save ye gallants and this hopeful age

DMI number:
35805
Poem Aliases
True Widow. Prologue
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Evidence:
LION
Widow Ranter. Prologue.
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Evidence:
Possibly a misattribution in N12159?
First Line:
Heaven save ye gallants and this hopeful age
Last Line:
Who needs will father what the parish got
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Prologue
Themes:
Theatre
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Calif. I (1956): 159-60. Prologue to Shadwell’s True Widow, reused in Widow Ranter (1690); see Behn, Works, ed. Todd (1996), 7, 290, 296.
Content/Publication
Title:
A collection and selection of english prologues and epilogues [vol 1] [T145232] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.109-110
Poem Title:
Prologue To The Widow Ranter; By Mrs. Behn, 1690.
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden
Title:
Prologues and epilogues, celebrated for their poetical merit [ecco] [N12159]
Page No(s):
pp.98-99
Poem Title:
Prologue...to Mrs. Behn's Widow Ranter. 1690.
Attribution:
by Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden