The expense in perfumes is a most vain sin
- DMI number:
- 12252
- First Line:
- The expense in perfumes is a most vain sin
- Last Line:
- Except thou could'st sir Ralph wear them within
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Distich
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of To the Same Sir Cod. Bevington (2012) V: 122.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- XXII.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixd, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
- Page No(s):
- XXI.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- XVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- XVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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