In church your grandsire cut his throat
- DMI number:
- 24883
- First Line:
- In church your grandsire cut his throat
- Last Line:
- To have cut his throat before he married
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Corruption and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 349B
- First Line:
- The church I hate and with good reason
- Last Line:
- I keep my gullet for the halter
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- On the same.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Dean Swift]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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