Here's bone and skin because they're thin
- DMI number:
- 32411
- First Line:
- Here's bone and skin because they're thin
- Last Line:
- That flesh and blood won't bear it
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain abab
- Themes:
- Poverty
- Author:
- John Byrom
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XV: 245.
- First Line:
- Bone and skin two millers thin
- Last Line:
- That flesh and blood can't bear it
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Two brethren thin called bone and skin
- Last Line:
- That flesh and blood won't bear it
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- XXXIV. On a Corporation Dispute - at Manchester - carried on between a fat and lean Alderman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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