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
- 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
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