Cuckolds make cuckolds tis a pretty trade
- DMI number:
- 14365
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Cuckolds make cuckolds tis a pretty trade
- Last Line:
- Because it is a common name to all men
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Marriage
- Author:
- Thomas Middleton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'A Courtly Masque: the Device Called the World Tost at Tennis' (1620, ESTC S106479). Taylor et al. (2007): 1413-1414.
- Author:
- William Rowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'A Courtly Masque: the Device Called the World Tost at Tennis' (1620, ESTC S106479). Taylor et al. (2007): 1413-1414.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Middleton and Rowley's World tost at Tennis
- Attributed To:
- William RowleyThomas Middleton
Poem Aliases
Middleton and Rowley. World Tossed at Tennis.
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