Two or three dears and two or three sweets
- DMI number:
- 21891
- First Line:
- Two or three dears and two or three sweets
- Last Line:
- Can never fail making a couple of fools
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Couplet, and Receipt / recipe
- Themes:
- Love[courtship]
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, Z198 (Rejected)
- First Line:
- Two or three dears and two or three sweets
- Last Line:
- Can never fail making two or three fools
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]
- Page No(s):
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt for Courtship.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- CCXCVIII. A Receipt for Courtship.
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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