Betwixt two suitors sat a lady fair
- DMI number:
- 42015
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Betwixt two suitors sat a lady fair
- Last Line:
- She gave or him she took the garland from
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Question, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love, Objects[Garland (for the head).], and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- William Basse
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract, with variants, from 'Eclogue 7'. Basse, Poetical Works, ed. by R. Warwick Bond (London, 1893): 233-34.
- First Line:
- In my conceit she him would soonest have
- Last Line:
- She doth most honour she most love doth bear
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- The Proposition and Resolution of the Garland.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Basse. Eclogue 7.
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