Whilst men have these ambitious fancies
- DMI number:
- 4191
- First Line:
- Whilst men have these ambitious fancies
- Last Line:
- Love is a jest and vows are wind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Satire, and Fable
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Ambition, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears (1971) I: 195.
- First Line:
- From public noise and factious strife
- Last Line:
- Where all this time he had been hid
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Tales to kill time, by the Society of the Court of Comus [T73665]
- Page No(s):
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]
- Page No(s):
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- The Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Page No(s):
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [part 2] [T198536]
- Page No(s):
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [T100480] [vol II]
- Page No(s):
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [T130695]
- Page No(s):
- p.275
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [T41632 vol. II]
- Page No(s):
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muse in good humour or a collection of comic tales. By the most eminent poets [vol I] [T41630] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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