What crowns the fruitful marriage bed with joy
- DMI number:
- 37254
- First Line:
- What crowns the fruitful marriage bed with joy
- Last Line:
- And mirth and joy and peace sincere the heavenly banquet crowned
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Couplet
- Themes:
- Marriage, Parents and children, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Claudius Quilletus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- George Sewell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- See Johnson (ed. Lonsdale), The Lives of the most eminent English poets, 4 vols. (Oxford: OUP, 2006), vol. II, p. 425, footnote 34: 'R[owe] translated Bk. I of Claude Quillet's Callipaedia (1712), George Sewell, Samuel Cobb, and William Diaper contributing the other books.'
- Author:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- See Johnson (ed. Lonsdale), The Lives of the most eminent English poets, 4 vols. (Oxford: OUP, 2006), vol. II, p. 425, footnote 34: 'R[owe] translated Bk. I of Claude Quillet's Callipaedia (1712), George Sewell, Samuel Cobb, and William Diaper contributing the other books.'
- Author:
- Samuel Cobb
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- See Johnson (ed. Lonsdale), The Lives of the most eminent English poets, 4 vols. (Oxford: OUP, 2006), vol. II, p. 425, footnote 34: 'R[owe] translated Bk. I of Claude Quillet's Callipaedia (1712), George Sewell, Samuel Cobb, and William Diaper contributing the other books.'
- Author:
- William Diaper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- See Johnson (ed. Lonsdale), The Lives of the most eminent English poets, 4 vols. (Oxford: OUP, 2006), vol. II, p. 425, footnote 34: 'R[owe] translated Bk. I of Claude Quillet's Callipaedia (1712), George Sewell, Samuel Cobb, and William Diaper contributing the other books.'
- First Line:
- Alas what pains and doubts distract the soul
- Last Line:
- While fond desires the judgment's choice control
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- If you delight to hear the actions told
- Last Line:
- And read them over with a curious eye
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Innure yourself to early thought and strive
- Last Line:
- The soul is active and can never be tired
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Knowledge has bounds that stint th'unwilling soul
- Last Line:
- Nor may we search what heaven forbids to find
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The soul tis true condemned a while by fate
- Last Line:
- We soon shall mourn a loose degenerate son
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When first this infant world its form put on
- Last Line:
- And beauty's sacred form remains unknown
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Why should the implanted energy of mind
- Last Line:
- The search of truth to their discerning eye
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Callipaedia: Or, the art of getting beautiful children [T77314] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.32-168
- Poem Title:
- Callipaedia.
- Attribution:
- In 'Contents', Book I is attributed to N. Rowe, Esq, Book II to Mr. Sewell, and Book III to S. Cobb, M. A. and Book IV 'By Mr. Diaper to pag. 120. line 17. the Remainder by Mr. Cobb.'.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel CobbNicholas Rowe
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