Let me not be too high nor yet too low

DMI number:

18134

Poem Aliases

Horace. Odes. Book 2, Ode 10.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Let me not be too high nor yet too low

Last Line:

For there I fancy lies the solid joy

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Sestet aabbcc

Themes:

Sex and bawdy humour

Related People

Translated from:

Horace

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

Title:

Cupid’s metamorphoses or, Love in all Shapes. Being The Second and last Volume of the Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College, Cambridge. [ESTC T11213]

Page No(s):

p.228

Poem Title:

From Horace. Auream quisquis Mediocritatem Diligit - Turn'd and applied to Chloe.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison