Who can believe with common sense
- DMI number:
- 22401
- First Line:
- Who can believe with common sense
- Last Line:
- Does he regard on what we dine
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Food and drink[bacon and eggs] and God
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 949A
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- A French Gentleman dining with some Company on a Fast Day, called for some Bacon and Eggs. The rest were very angry, and reprov'd him for so heinous a Sin. Hereupon he wrote the following Lines.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- CCCCXXV.
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The muse's vagaries or the merry mortal's companion [Part I] [ESTC T170724]
- Page No(s):
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [The great Sin of eating Eggs and Bacon ('Peut on croire avec bon sens')] In English
- Attribution:
- by Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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