When Butler needy wretch was still alive
- DMI number:
- 32440
- First Line:
- When Butler needy wretch was still alive
- Last Line:
- He asked for bread and he received a stone
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death, Food and drink, and Poverty
- Author:
- Samuel Wesley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wesley (1743): 90 ('On the setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey', in 'Poems on Several Occasions').
- First Line:
- While Butler needy wretch was still alive
- Last Line:
- He asked for bread and he received a stone
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Whilst Butler needy wretch was still alive
- Last Line:
- He asked for bread and he received a stone
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- XXV. On the Monument to Butler's Memory, erected in Westminster-Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- On the Monument to Butler's Memory, Erected in Westminster Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- On the Monument to Butler's Memory, Erected in Westminster Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select and Remarkable Epitaphs [Vol. 1] [T27439] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Samuel Wesley
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Wesley
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