What woman could do I have tried to be free
- DMI number:
- 606
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What woman could do I have tried to be free
- Last Line:
- Still still he's the man
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Colley Cibber
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Love in a Riddle' Act 2 (1719, ESTC T38640).
- Composer:
- Mr. Brailsford
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- What woman could do I have tried to be free
- Last Line:
- He still is the man
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The New Vocal Miscellany. Containing near 200 Songs [T179110] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Song 102. What woman could do, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Musical Miscellany [v.3] [not Suarez?] [T118842] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.30-32
- Poem Title:
- From Mr. Cibber's Pastoral call'd Love in a Riddle. The Tune by Mr. Brailsford.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Cibber's
- Attributed To:
- Colley Cibber
Poem Aliases
Cibber. Love in a Riddle.
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