What though fair nymphs your business is to play
- DMI number:
- 31040
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What though fair nymphs your business is to play
- Last Line:
- And female pleasure be to read and write
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence, Trades / labour, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of The Hardship put upon Ladies, Swift Poems Project, 662-
- First Line:
- Poor ladies though their business be to play
- Last Line:
- And female pleasure be to read and write
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- XCVI. Hardship upon the Ladies, or, the Drudgery of Cards.
- Attribution:
- By Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Hardship upon the Ladies, or, the Drudgery of Cards.
- Attribution:
- By Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Hardship upon the Ladies, or, the Drydgeyr of Cards.
- Attribution:
- By Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
Poem Aliases
Swift. The Hardship put upon the Ladies.
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