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In love's soft reign the sceptre is the fan

DMI number:
19282
First Line:
In love's soft reign the sceptre is the fan
Last Line:
And ends the character he held before
Poem Genre / Form:
Thing-poem and Couplet
Themes:
Objects[Fan] and Sex / relations between the sexes
Content/Publication
Title:
Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
Page No(s):
pp.35-36
Poem Title:
Upon the Tearing of a certain Lady of Quality's Fan, in the publick Room at Bath.
Attribution:
'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
Attributed To:
John Winstanley