If any wench Venus' girdle wear
- DMI number:
- 23766
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If any wench Venus' girdle wear
- Last Line:
- And we cry there dies an Adonis
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Octet ababcdcd
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Women / the female character
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Beggar's Opera Act 1 Scene 4. Fuller (1983) II.
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- Song 238. In Gay's Beggar's Opera.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- Song 238. In Gay's Beggar's Opera.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. Beggar's opera.
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