I took the wall one thrust me rudely by
- DMI number:
- 41929
- First Line:
- I took the wall one thrust me rudely by
- Last Line:
- The walls the subjects but the way's the king's
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Manners and Travel
- Author:
- John Heath
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Epigram. XVII.' from Two Centuries of Epigrammes: sig. B2v. Text in miscellany ID 1650 has minor variants.
- Author:
- Sir John Davies
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Alexander B. Grosart comments that this and other epigrams 'have the ring of Davies in them'. Grosart, ed., The Works in Verse and Prose [...] of Sir John Davies, 3 vols (1869-76), I: 311, 351.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 4. In superbum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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