If humble wives that drag the marriage chain
- DMI number:
- 5138
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If humble wives that drag the marriage chain
- Last Line:
- We mean to run away and let the parish take it
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Prologue
- Themes:
- Marriage and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) IX: 470.
- Title:
- Miscellanea: the second volume [T39419] [partial reissue of T39417 vol. 2; reissue of T82103]
- Page No(s):
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Gamester: A Comedy. As it was acted at the New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn Fields. Spoken By Mr. Betterton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 3] [T145232] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Gamester.
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Title:
- The diverting post, for the entertainment of town and country [P2118]
- Page No(s):
- Numb. 15 (r)
- Poem Title:
- A prologue to the new play called, The Gamester. Spoke by Mr. Betterton
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Row
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
Poem Aliases
The Gamester. Prologue.
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