Conversing with your sprightly boys
- DMI number:
- 23351
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Conversing with your sprightly boys
- Last Line:
- The blockhead had appeared an ass
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Education
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 427-431.
- First Line:
- Conversing with your sprightly boys
- Last Line:
- But never give a blockhead sense
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [2nd ed] [T127413] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. A Fable. To a Mother.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [3rd ed] [39 parts] [T112124] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. A Fable. To a Mother.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [4thed] [T199384] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. A Fable. To a Mother.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [T125628] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. A Fable. To a Mother.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T127912]
- Page No(s):
- pp.228-232
- Poem Title:
- LXIV. The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. To a Mother.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr. John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T162293]
- Page No(s):
- pp.228-232
- Poem Title:
- LXIV. The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. To a Mother.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. The owl, the swan, the cock, the spider, the ass, and the farmer.
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