To vex and torture thy unmeaning brain
- DMI number:
- 3426
- First Line:
- To vex and torture thy unmeaning brain
- Last Line:
- For anything entirely but an ass
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Triplet, Couplet, and Septet / seven-line stanza
- Themes:
- Dunces and Characters
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Love: Accepted (variant) Vieth (1968): 133.
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands. [ESTC R38820]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 111-3
- Poem Title:
- On a Poet Who Writ in the Praise of Satyr.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116471]
- Page No(s):
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- On a Poet Who Writ in the Praise of Satyr.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116963]
- Page No(s):
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- On a Poet who writ in the Praise of Satire.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T124630]
- Page No(s):
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- On a Poet Who Writ in the Praise of Satyr.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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