Tell me Dorinda why so gay

DMI number:

40502

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Last Line:

At once both stink and sing

Poem Genre / Form:

Quintain / quintet abaab

Themes:

Age and Women / the female character

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Author:

Charles Sackville

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Harris (1979): 45-6.

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Content/Publication

Title:

The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]

Page No(s):

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

Song 280.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Dorset, on the Countess of Dorchester

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville