Of all the trades that ever I see
- DMI number:
- 42497
- First Line:
- Of all the trades that ever I see
- Last Line:
- They wooed in verse and went to bed in prose
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Burlesque, Triplet, and Song with refrain
- Themes:
- City[London.], Mythology, and Trades / labour
- Author:
- James Smith
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Follows 'The Innovation of Penelope and Ulysses, A Mock-Poem', attributed to 'J. S.', in Wit Restor'd (1658, ESTC R32937). See also ODNB.
- First Line:
- O all ye cliptic spirits of the spheres
- Last Line:
- Whoop is there such a song let's have it | It followeth
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]
- Page No(s):
- pp.219-225
- Poem Title:
- The Blacksmith, As it was sung before Ulysses and Penelope at their Feast, when he returned from the Trojan Warrs, collected out of Homer, Virgill and Ovid, by some of the Modern Family of the Fancies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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