Of late was a meeting a meeting most merry
- DMI number:
- 9695
- First Line:
- Of late was a meeting a meeting most merry
- Last Line:
- So like them I conclude and know nought of the matter | Derry down down heigh derry down
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song with refrain
- Themes:
- Politics and Sex and bawdy humour
- Author:
- John Breval
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ESTC (T5774) notes: 'Joseph Gay is a pseudonym used by Breval'. ODNB states: 'Curll invented the fictitious author Joseph Gay [...] and Breval was the principal—but not the only—writer to assume the disguise.'
- Title:
- Court poems in two parts compleat [N15386] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Westminster Ballad. Or, The Earl of Oxford's Tryal. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joseph Gay
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Gay
- Title:
- Court poems in two parts compleat [N15388] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Westminster Ballad. Or, The Earl of Oxford's Tryal. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joseph Gay.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Gay
- Title:
- Court poems. In two parts. [T5775] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Westminster Ballad. Or, The Earl of Oxford's Tryal. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joseph Gay.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Gay
- Title:
- Pope's miscellany. The second part. [T5774]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Westminster Ballad. Or, The Earl of Oxford's Tryal. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joseph Gay
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Gay
Related People
Content/Publication