How ill the motion with the music suits
- DMI number:
- 24567
- First Line:
- How ill the motion with the music suits
- Last Line:
- So Orpheus played and like them danced the brutes
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Couplet, and Distich
- Themes:
- Music
- Author:
- George Jeffreys
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'Extempore; on Sight of a Dance'. Jeffreys (1754): 16.
- First Line:
- How ill the motion with the music suits
- Last Line:
- So Orpheus fiddled and so danced the brutes
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- XLII.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Budgell.
- Attributed To:
- Eustace Budgell
Related People
Related Poems
Content/Publication