How wretched is the wit and how forlorn
- DMI number:
- 30267
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How wretched is the wit and how forlorn
- Last Line:
- For women choose their men like silks for show
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from An epistle to the right honourable William Pulteney ('Pult'ney methinks you blame my breach of word'). Dearing and Beckwith (1974) I: 208-214.
- First Line:
- A monkey with ambition fired
- Last Line:
- You'll grow polite and act like men
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XII. Merit in Rags meets with but few Admirers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XI. Merit in Rags meets with but few Admirers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XII. Merit in Rags meets with but few Admirers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Epistle to Pulteney.
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