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Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife

DMI number:
16891
First Line:
Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife
Last Line:
You're a cuckold says she do I tell you truth now
Poem Genre / Form:
Alternate rhyme [abcbdefe...] and Epigram
Themes:
Marriage[Cuckoldry], Sex / relations between the sexes, and Virtue / vice[Honesty]
Related People
Author:
Matthew Prior
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Wright and Spears I: 686.
Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
Page No(s):
p.70
Poem Title:
CCXLV.
Attribution:
M. Prior.
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
Title:
Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [T75653]
Page No(s):
p.80
Poem Title:
Truth Told at Last. An Epigram.
Attribution:
Matthew Prior
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
Title:
Poems on several occasions [T75638] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.111
Poem Title:
Truth told at last.
Attribution:
Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
Title:
Poems on several occasions [T75645]
Page No(s):
p.111
Poem Title:
Truth told at last.
Attribution:
Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
Title:
Poems on several occasions [T75657]
Page No(s):
p.111
Poem Title:
Truth told at last.
Attribution:
Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
Title:
The muse's vagaries or the merry mortal's companion [Part I] [ESTC T170724]
Page No(s):
p.26
Poem Title:
Truth told at last.
Attribution:
Contents page attribution: by the same [i.e. Prior]
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior