Seek you to train your favourite boy
- DMI number:
- 24906
- First Line:
- Seek you to train your favourite boy
- Last Line:
- Mangled he falls he howls and dies
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Animals[bull; mastiff], Fighting / conflict, and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 312-313.
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T127912]
- Page No(s):
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- X. The Bull and the Mastiff.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr. John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T162293]
- Page No(s):
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- X. The Bull and the Mastiff.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The Edinburgh Entertainer [T128711]
- Page No(s):
- pp.281-282
- Poem Title:
- Fable IX. The Bull and the Mastiff.
- Attribution:
- p.267: From Mr. Gay's Fables.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
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