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In vain long parchment pedigrees adorn

DMI number:
12678
First Line:
In vain long parchment pedigrees adorn
Last Line:
And nimbler Chanter get a sluggish Ball
Poem Genre / Form:
Advice and Couplet
Themes:
Social order, Virtue / vice, and Places[Bath]
Content/Publication
Title:
A new miscellany: being a collection of pieces of poetry from Bath, Tunbridge, Oxford, Epsom [N20426]
Page No(s):
pp.73-74
Poem Title:
The Resentment, or Triumvirate. Inscrib'd to a Lord and two Ladies, at Bath.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed