As cross his yard at early day
- DMI number:
- 1758
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- As cross his yard at early day
- Last Line:
- Cancel at once all obligation
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quintain / quintet aabab and Fable
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Altered version of The barley mow and the dunghill. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 348-349.
- First Line:
- How many saucy airs we meet
- Last Line:
- Cancel at once all obligation
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Fables and other short poems [II]
- Page No(s):
- f. 2
- Poem Title:
- The Barley-mow and the Dunghill
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Barleymow and the dunghill.
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