Tell me love's envoy prithee do
- DMI number:
- 42586
- First Line:
- Tell me love's envoy prithee do
- Last Line:
- I'm dove in all parts but my tongue
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Beast tale, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love and Poetry / literature / writing
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Francis Willis
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 43.
- First Line:
- Tell me love's envoy prithee do
- Last Line:
- A prating daw or chattering jay
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
- Page No(s):
- pp.18-21
- Poem Title:
- VIII, The Dove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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