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There was a man bespake a thing

DMI number:
41960
First Line:
There was a man bespake a thing
Last Line:
Whether he hath it I or no
Poem Genre / Form:
Riddle and Couplet
Themes:
Objects[Coffin (solution in miscellany ID 1650).] and Death
Related People
Author:
Sir John Davies
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
'A Riddle upon a Coffin'. The Works in Verse and Prose [...] of Sir John Davies, ed. by Alexander B. Grosart, 3 vols (1869-76), I: 306.
Content/Publication
Title:
A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
Page No(s):
p.112
Poem Title:
Riddle 9.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed