Whilst I carouse all my cares sink
- DMI number:
- 42594
- First Line:
- Whilst I carouse all my cares sink
- Last Line:
- And be dead drunk before with wine
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Food and drink[wine.] and Money / wealth
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Francis Willis
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 43.
- First Line:
- Whilst I carouse all my cares sunk
- Last Line:
- And be dead drunk before with wine
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
- Page No(s):
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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