The maid and thereby hangs a tale
- DMI number:
- 13821
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The maid and thereby hangs a tale
- Last Line:
- It would have spoiled him surely
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Song
- Themes:
- Marriage
- Author:
- Sir John Suckling
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from A Ballade, upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick where I have been'). Clayton (1971): 79-84.
- First Line:
- I tell thee Dick where I have been
- Last Line:
- With Bridget and with Nell
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Suckling
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Suckling
Poem Aliases
Suckling. A Ballade upon a wedding.
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