The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- DMI number:
- 4451
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Last Line:
- I could say much more but here ends the chapter
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Love, Sex and bawdy humour, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 233: Noted but omitted.
- Author:
- Thomas Brown
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'A Satire on Marriage'. Brown (1715) I: 64-65. Vieth (1968): 233: 'By Tom Brown'.
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Last Line:
- Judge you as you please but I scorn for to flatter
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Last Line:
- Judge you as you please but I scorn to flatter
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The husband is the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Last Line:
- But may piss out as well the last conflagration
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Last Line:
- I could say much more but here ends this chapter
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. II] [T125689]
- Page No(s):
- pp.187-188
- Poem Title:
- Some verses sent by a friend to one who twice ventur'd his carcase in marriage
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.177-178
- Poem Title:
- Some Verses sent by a Friend to one who twice ventur'd his Carcase in Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Page No(s):
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- Some Verses sent by a Friend to one who twice ventur'd his Carcase in Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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