Through all the employments of life
- DMI number:
- 22489
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Through all the employments of life
- Last Line:
- Thinks his trade as honest as mine
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]
- Themes:
- Trades / labour and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Beggar's Opera Act 1 Scene 1. Fuller (1983) II.
- Title:
- Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
- Page No(s):
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- The Song of Peeachum, the Thief-Catcher.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Beggar's opera.
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