Such were the wags who boldly did adventure
- DMI number:
- 22467
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Such were the wags who boldly did adventure
- Last Line:
- And wear their own fools cap instead of bays
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Prologue
- Themes:
- Dunces
- Author:
- Charles Johnson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from prologue to 'The Sultaness' (1717, ESTC T57016).
- Title:
- Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
- Page No(s):
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Sultaness
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Charles Johnson. The Sultaness. Prologue.
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