Jove does with fear and awe his sceptre hold
- DMI number:
- 30287
- First Line:
- Jove does with fear and awe his sceptre hold
- Last Line:
- And dreadful hairy meteors fright the world
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Aphra Behn
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Extract with variation from The Restor'd Maiden-head (1691, ESTC R11476): 15-16. The poem is 'Sometimes attributed to Aphra Behn' (ESTC).
- First Line:
- The husband thus his wife reproved
- Last Line:
- A railing gossip all despise
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XXV. Juno; or the Immortal Vixen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XXV. Juno; or the Immortal Vixen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XXV. Juno; or the Immortal Vixen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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