Why dost thou me with gifts and letters
- DMI number:
- 42161
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Why dost thou me with gifts and letters
- Last Line:
- Useless as if I had a clap
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Comic verse, Lyric, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Age, Sex and bawdy humour, Women / the female character, and Personal insults
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Flatman
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Not in Flatman (1686).
- Title:
- The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- Epode XII. ... Against a libidinous old Woman.
- Attribution:
- By T. F. Paraphrased.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Flatman
Poem Aliases
Horace. Epode 12.
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