Of every asking follows nocht
- DMI number:
- 10929
- First Line:
- Of every asking follows nocht
- Last Line:
- To fecht with fortune is nae wit | In asking suld discration be
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Admonition, Dialect verse, Song with refrain, and Quintain / quintet aabab
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Communication, and Manners
- Author:
- William Dunbar
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bawcutt (1998) I: 142-143.
- Title:
- Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne. MDLXVIII [reprint edn - T221069] [google books]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-58
- Poem Title:
- Discretioun in Asking.
- Attribution:
- William Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne. MDLXVIII [T95127] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Discretioun in Asking.
- Attribution:
- William Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol II] [ESTC T143032]
- Page No(s):
- p.82-84
- Poem Title:
- Discration in Asking.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol II] [ESTC T144558]
- Page No(s):
- p.82-84
- Poem Title:
- Discration in Asking.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
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