To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain

DMI number:

39597

First Line:

To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain

Last Line:

For any thing entire but an ass

Poem Genre / Form:

Answer/reply and Couplet

Themes:

Dunces and Manners

Related People

Author:

John Wilmot

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Love: Accepted Vieth (1968): 133.

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Last Line:

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Relationship:

Answer To/Answered By

Comments:

First Line:

To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain

Last Line:

For any thing entire but for an ass

Relationship:

Variant Of

Comments:

Content/Publication

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.51-52

Poem Title:

The Earl of Rochester's Answer to the foregoing Satire.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot