And now and then breaks a dry biscuit jest
- DMI number:
- 15587
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- And now and then breaks a dry biscuit jest
- Last Line:
- Mean cates are welcome still to hungry guests
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Humour, jokes
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Induction, Every Man out of his Humour. Bevington (2012) I.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Every man out of his humour.
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