Two thousand pounds a year
- DMI number:
- 17331
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Two thousand pounds a year
- Last Line:
- And with their ruin water a whole country
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Satire, Blank verse, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Money / wealth, Objects[Sieve], and Parents and children
- Author:
- Thomas May
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- May (1658): 22 (extract from 'The Old Couple').
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- May's Old Couple
- Attributed To:
- Thomas May
Poem Aliases
May. Old Couple.
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