What woman could do I have tried to be free
- DMI number:
- 23680
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What woman could do I have tried to be free
- Last Line:
- He still is the man
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Colley Cibber
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Love in a Riddle' Act 2 (1719, ESTC T38640).
- First Line:
- What woman could do I have tried to be free
- Last Line:
- Still still he's the man
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Song 173. In Cibber's Love in a Riddle.
- Attribution:
- Cibber
- Attributed To:
- Colley Cibber
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Song 173. In Cibber's Love in a Riddle.
- Attribution:
- Cibber.
- Attributed To:
- Colley Cibber
Poem Aliases
Cibber. Love in a Riddle.
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