Impertinence at first is born
- DMI number:
- 33431
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Impertinence at first is born
- Last Line:
- Are sure to make their follies known
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Animals, and Rural life
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 361.
- First Line:
- A noisey foy of little fame
- Last Line:
- Are sure to make their follies known
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A Collection of Modern Fables [ESTC T85473]
- Page No(s):
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- Fable LXXXIX. The Hound and the Huntsman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T127912]
- Page No(s):
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- XLV. The Hound and the Huntsman.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr. John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T162293]
- Page No(s):
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- XLV. The Hound and the Huntsman.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. Hound and the huntsman.
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